Practical Guides
Essential Reading
Cyber Incident Response for Retailers
Retailers with tested incident response plans restore full trading operations in an average of 3 days following a cyberattack — those without plans take an average of 11 days.
E-Commerce Platform Security
Over 80% of Magento e-commerce sites running version 1 (end-of-life since June 2020) are now compromised with card-skimming malware or other malicious code.
Further Reading
Security Awareness Training for Retail Staff
Retail organisations with role-specific security awareness programmes experience 64% fewer successful phishing attacks than those using generic annual e-learning alone.
Reducing Your PCI DSS Scope
Retailers who implement tokenisation and hosted payment pages reduce their PCI DSS compliance cost by an average of 75% compared to those processing card data on their own systems.
Retail Cybersecurity on a Budget
The average UK mid-market retailer spends 3.2% of IT budget on cybersecurity — compared to 8.6% for financial services — yet faces comparable breach costs.