Cybersecurity Magazine

The retail sector is rapidly digitizing. As consumers push for seamless online experiences, many retailers have embraced an omnichannel approach to marketing and sales. Retailers are considered omnichannel when they incorporate several different methods of shopping such as an online shop, a physical store and excepting phone sales. While this shift has many business advantages, data security for omnichannel retailers often falls short — and retail cyber attacks grow.
Omnichannel strategies aim to provide a consistent experience across in-store, social media and online shop interactions on all devices. Businesses employing them retain 89% of their customers, so omnichannel is quickly becoming the norm. However, these strategies’ cybersecurity challenges become more concerning as retail data security issues rise.

There are several possible routes to attacking a containerized deployment, and one way to map them is to think of the potential attack vectors at each stage of a container’s life cycle.
The life cycle starts with the application code written by a developer. This code, as well as the third-party dependencies on which it relies, may contain flaws known as vulnerabilities. There are thousands of vulnerabilities that have been published, and if they exist in an application, an attacker may have the ability to exploit them. Examples of vulnerabilities are secret exposure and application (including CNF microservices) traffic in plane text, which can be intercepted and altered.

It’s time the CFO got involved in cybersecurity. Remote working has opened vast possibilities for cyber-attackers to access financial data and processes, spreading risk factors well beyond the borders of the IT department.
Everything can be done, and is, on the internet these days, thanks to the global pandemic.

This article comprises three parts. We first introduce what a cloud native platform is with a deep dive into Kubernetes (K8s), which is the most popular open-source solution to container orchestration. Then, we discuss the threat landscape and overall security framework for mitigating the corresponding risks. The last part of the article focuses on monitoring and observability using the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology.