Tag: it security
Checking All the Boxes on Your GPS Solution (7P Solutions)
With today’s retail business environment and the ever-increasing prevalence of organized retail crime, LP professionals must ask themselves two important questions about their GPS...
An Inside Look at Sears Asset Protection
Scott Glenn, JD, LPC, currently serves as the chief security officer for Sears Holdings, where he manages asset and profit protection, safety, business continuity,...
The Evolution of the Retail Loss Prevention Professional
What is the role of retail loss prevention? What may seem to be a simple question has grown increasingly more complicated as various functions,...
Building an Unbreakable LP–IT Bond
Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like...
Building an Organization around Data and Technology
EDITORS NOTE: Scott Glenn, JD, LPC, is the chief security officer for Sears Holdings where he is responsible for asset and profit protection, safety...
Becoming a Big-Picture Thinker
Tamara Murray, LPC, is a regional asset protection director for Walmart. She assumed this role in 2015 after spending nine years in store- and...
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention, Part 3
Here we are at the third and final installment of the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine. I had indicated in the first...
The Potential for Data Breaches in the Internet of (Hackable) Things
As more and more devices are connected together online, from cars to fridges to wearable technology, we tend to ignore the simple fact that...
Have You Done Your Part, To Get Workers to Do Their Part, To Reduce...
Profit protection goals are achievable when everybody thinks about and reacts to security threats, but are nearly impossible to attain if security rarely crosses their minds.
The Next Fifteen Years of LPM
Realizing that there are many readers who turn first to the back of the magazine for Jim Lee’s Parting Words column, while you may...