Cybersecurity In the Hospitality Industry - 0 views
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Like other industries that traditionally underinvest in cybersecurity, the hospitality industry has recently come under increased attacks from cybercriminals.
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While restaurants and hotels serve guests, they are also serving up valuable credit card and personal data to cybercriminals without even knowing it.
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Despite most attackers focusing on card data, increasingly they are looking at your loyalty programs
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Unless hospitality businesses protect themselves properly with a proactive cybersecurity strategy, all of this data is vulnerable to exploitation by organized cybercrime.
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A key activity is to ensure a business has been properly audited from a cybersecurity perspective. You need to properly audit your IT infrastructure, your POS systems, and ensure all endpoint software is up to date and properly patched.
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In addition to ensuring that POS terminal software is up to date and properly patched, make sure that you are following government-mandated and PCI compliance standards for these terminals.
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Article talks about how cyber hacking is at an all-time high in the hospitality industry. Two main areas that hackers look into the most would be loyalty programs and POS systems as they have more important data. It also talks about how companies can do in order to better protect themselves such as firewalls.