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Since last June’s National Retail Federation (NRF) loss prevention conference, there have been a lot of changes—and not all of them have been good. Attendees to this year’s NRF PROTECT conference, June 27 - 28 in Washington DC, will be learning how to navigate in retail and loss prevention environments that are more complicated, dangerous, and mission critical than at any time in recent years.

Attitudes toward the cyber risk posed by network devices can vary substantially. Some organizations don’t give it much thought.

Facing rapidly evolving threats and coming off a year ending with weak sales, loss prevention, safety, and risk practitioners in the restaurant industry face a mounting number of critical questions.

Every facility uses some level of key control to ensure the utmost in safety for employees and asset security. Choosing a key control solution for your environment is only the first step.

Last month, police officers from the Berkeley Police Department in California raided a house as part of an investigation into a retail theft ring and found stolen cosmetics and other goods totaling $500,000, according to news reports.

Loss prevention executives are contending with a slew of challenges—budgetary pressures chief among them—yet there is reason for optimism.

Loss prevention professionals have historically depended on manufacturers to create the technology solutions that we use to protect our stores.

As the contract security guard industry has improved and become more professional, it has become tougher to assign all the blame to it when security partnerships go wrong.

Video surveillance is often at the heart of loss prevention strategies designed to address causes of shrinkage. Whether a retailer is taking aim at shoplifting, employee theft, returns fraud, tag switching, or sweethearting, a video solution can usually help.

Loss prevention practitioners today face long-standing yet persistent threats, such as employee theft and shoplifting, and increasingly contend with new ones ushered in by a more virtual world. As difficult as it is to combat these risks, they are fairly clear-cut. The battle lines are clearly drawn. LP’s mission is straightforward.