Final Blog Post

For the final retail cyber security blog post I will write an analysis of my blogs so far, what I've learned and where I gathered my sources.

First off, I chose this topic because it is relevant to my current field. I work in an organization that processes debit and credit card transactions for banks and merchants. In my area we deal with merchants of all sizes - large corporations and mom & pop facilities. I monitor applications for POS devices and online applications.  Also, this industry is prone to attacks and hackers bent on securing Pii information from consumers and stealing data from companies. It is rare to go more than a couple months without hearing about a major data breach in the retail sector.

A majority of my sources were from news articles and the NIST special publications. You can gather a lot of information from the NIST and the media (while biased) does a great job highlighting the failure of companies to secure our data. Each week I learned more about the vulnerabilities and risks of the industry, the tools the hackers used to exploit those vulnerabilities, and the ways in which it can be prevented in the future. I hope this blog was beneficial for the perspective I could provide.

- Angie