What’s the best way for retailers to deal collectively with cyberthreats to their systems? Form a collective body to share information or leak the information to a journalist? Well, unlike the financial services industry and the health care sector, the retail industry seems to deal with this using the latter option and a developer of online security technology is calling on them to change.
In a recent blog post, Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s chief technology officer, expressed his concern that the retail industry doesn’t have a center set up to share information about cyberattacks and threats. “A key learning from past developments like this is that the road to things getting better passes through the development sharing and analysis programs within the industry,” he writes.
