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11 Steps to Reduce Your Data Breach Liability
What follows is a top-level list of some key steps every organization should have already taken to protect against data breach liability.
Are Your Solution Providers Following Data Security Best Practices?
There may be no better symbol of the nation’s modern, high-tech military as its fleet of predator drones. So it surely caused a few red faces at the Pentagon when it was discovered that insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq had used $26 software to intercept live video feeds from the unmanned planes.
Loss Prevention Data: Who’s Responsible?
Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like eavesdropping on marriage counseling.
Store Detective Responsibilities and Characteristics
Two US retail chains participated in an extensive study of how to select individuals most likely to "win" as in-store loss prevention specialists (store detectives or “SDs”). Following are some of the highlights of this study.
Item One on a Security Officer Job Description: Effective Communication
A few years ago, at a small company in Portland, OR, an employee who had earlier been placed on psychiatric medical leave arrived at the facility during the overnight shift. Unfortunately, word of the worker's status hadn't been passed on to the security officer on duty...
Christopher Hoffman Joins Appriss Retail as Senior Program Manager
Appriss Retail, the industry leader in retail performance improvement solutions, today announced that Christopher Hoffman has joined the company’s client services department as senior...
How to Perform An In-Store Audit That Will Guide and Motivate Improved Performance
The three major causes that contribute to inventory shrink in any retail operation are internal theft, external theft, and operational compliance. An effective loss prevention program must focus on all three of these areas.
What’s Driving the Latest Retail Shrinkage Rates in the United States and Beyond?
How can US retail shrinkage rates be so high, when the United States ranks in the top five countries in terms of investment in loss prevention technology?