Tag: data protection

In this article, industry leaders discuss how data analytics have evolved both positively and negatively and its impact on LP.

Breaches of corporate and government data appear to be running at levels even higher than experts had feared going into stay-at-home orders due to...

It’s evident that there is a new battleground for loss prevention. The product exists as bits and bytes, and it won’t be carried out of stores or looted from warehouses. Indeed, the threat is data theft.

Law enforcement recently announced the takedowns of two of the world’s largest dark web drug sites known as Wall Street Market and Valhalla.

While the new “anti-establishment” world is rejecting globalization, will retail CCTV technology integration provide the panacea to retail risks?

Contemporary loss prevention professionals still maintain responsibility for retail security. But they also must handle employee theft issues, data protection, safety and risk management, inventory audits, legal compliance, and matters related to organized retail crime and fraud.

The first full day of the conference, February 26, kicked off with a keynote speech by Dwayne MacIntosh, director of safety and security at Toronto Pearson International Airport, which handles 50 million passengers yearly.

When, in 2003, novelist William Gibson was famously quoted in The Economist as saying, "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed," he could easily have had the uneven development of CCTV surveillance in his crosshairs.

Despite the evolution of the LP industry, it remains a predominantly male environment. Why aren't there more women in loss prevention? Editorial Director Jac Brittain, LPC, decided to find out.

In a world where opposites attract, denial of service could be a force for good and put to commercial use, particularly in retail where organized retail crime gangs and opportunist thieves have had a free hand at disrupting legitimate business.