7/2/20

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Agilence Announces Creation of Strategic Advisory Board to Strengthen Leadership in Retail and Restaurant Data Analytics

MT. LAUREL, N.J. - Agilence, Inc., the leading provider of operational analytics & reporting solutions to the retail and restaurant industries, today announced the formation of its new Strategic Advisory Board (SAB). The newly formed SAB will work closely with the Agilence management team to further advance its progress in the data analytics industry and support the company's continued growth.

"We are pleased to formally welcome such established industry leaders to our newly formed Strategic Advisory Board," said Russ Hawkins, President and CEO of Agilence. "With vast corporate experience within the retail and technology space, Agilence will hugely benefit from their strong global senior leadership perspective. Their combined experience will be a great asset as we work to enable all retail and restaurant chain operators to unlock the power in their data, break down data access bottlenecks and empower all associates to make better, data-driven decisions throughout the organization."

The following individuals have been confirmed as members of Agilence's Strategic Advisory Board:

Lisa Cramer, former co-founder and President of LeadLife Solutions, SVP of Global Sales & Marketing at InReality, and current Head of North America Sales Leader Performance at SAP. Cramer serves to provide experience building growth engines through operational excellence that accelerate sales velocity and increase ARR.

Mike Lukianoff, previous CEO of CZAR Metrics and former Chief Analytics Officer at Fishbowl. Lukianoff prides himself on creating quantitative solutions for brick-and-mortar retail and restaurant businesses. He is also an advisory board member at Bite.

Paul Melchiorre, previous President of iPipeLine, CRO at Anaplan, Global Vice President at Ariba and SVP of Global Accounts at SAP. Melchiorre is currently an Operating Partner at Stripes and holds board or advisory positions at R3, Scout RFP, and MissionOG. He brings 30+ years of experience as an established software executive.

Ken Morris, founder and Principal of Boston Retail Partners, former CEO of CTF Consulting, and CEO of LakeWest Group. Currently, Morris applies his 40+ years of retail industry & consulting knowledge as an analyst for the Boston Main Streets Foundation.

667% Increase in Coronavirus-Related Cyberattacks
Balancing security and innovation in a crisis
The rapid global shift to a remote workforce and increased reliance on digital infrastructure was met almost immediately by a staggering uptick in cybercrime. With security resources and budgets stretched thin to accommodate remote workforces, cybercriminals were quick to capitalize on the increased attack surface and general uncertainty, striking with a 667 percent increase in coronavirus-related cyberattacks.

New technology, new threats
What must be achieved is a balance between innovation and security, based on an organization's risk appetite, business objectives and regulatory climate. Firms can avoid putting their reputations at risk by ensuring data and regulatory compliance, identifying and fixing weak points with an ethical hacking service and making sure IT departments control access to confidential information using encryption and managing identity with PKI. Firms should also consider working with a trusted security partner who can provide a comprehensive and proactive security plan

Insiders pose a risk
It is not just new technology that can pose a serious risk. Perhaps the greatest danger to a professional services firm is its people - and our new ways of working magnifies this weakness. With the shift away from secure private networks to SD-WAN, Internet and cloud-based connectivity, there are many ways for individuals to unwittingly offer cybercriminals a route into a company's network.

By partnering with a credible security partner, professional services firms can achieve a healthy balance that not only provides the flexibility to react quickly to rapidly changing market conditions, but also the ability to continuously seek efficiencies to operations. securitymagazine.com

Race to the Cloud: Can Security Keep Pace With Adoption?

IBM's Limor Kessem on New Study of Cloud Security Gaps

Since the advent of COVID-19, many enterprises have moved new workloads to the cloud. But have they been just as swift to adopt cybersecurity best practices in these multi-cloud environments? IBM's Limor Kessem analyzes a new cloud security study.

In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Kessem discusses:

• Highlights of the new study;
• Key gaps in governance and cloud apps;
• Recommendations for improving security in a multi-cloud environment.

Kessem, global security executive adviser at IBM, is a seasoned security advocate, public speaker and author. govinfosecurity.com

How IoT Can Help Retailers Succeed in a Post-Pandemic World
Internet of things (IoT) devices can support retailers as they navigate these changed circumstances. When deployed across retail operations, such devices can mitigate the amount of manual intervention needed to maintain product integrity and service shoppers. Here are some of the ways the IoT can help retailers adjust to a new world of business, and adhere to critical safety standards.

Remote Warehouse Management
Under new social distancing and sanitation guidelines, retailers need to find ways to limit unnecessary foot traffic that can contribute to the spread of disease, while still protecting their products. IoT sensors attached to containers can support warehouse management in these efforts, by collecting and transmitting data on inventory conditions to remote retail staff. With this technology, warehouse managers can monitor the temperature and pressure of containers from a distance, thereby keeping human contact, and the spread of germs, to a minimum.

Store Capacity Monitoring
Posting store "bouncers" at entrance and exit points to count shoppers as they come through is one option, but this method is prone to human error and may jeopardize employee and shopper safety. Instead, retailers can place IoT sensors on shelves or grocery carts to automatically, continuously and accurately count the number of shoppers in store, so they can more reliably adhere to safety regulations.

Optimized Shipping
To meet these expectations, retailers can attach IoT-enabled devices to shipping containers to secure up-to-date insights into package whereabouts. Data collected by these devices can also help to immediately identify delays caused by warehouse complications or heavy traffic, so that retailers they can quickly reevaluate and optimize shipping routes that will further enhance customer experiences moving forward. supplychainbrain.com

LP + IT Collaboration
Good Cyber Hygiene in a Pandemic-Driven World Starts with Us
We've seen COVID-19 infection curves flatten when people are conscientious about recommended pandemic hygiene, such as social distancing and wearing a mask. As we start to re-emerge from quarantine, it serves as a powerful example of what can be accomplished if security and IT teams approach cyber hygiene with the same rigor and sense of urgency. Effective cyber hygiene requires a level of cross-team collaboration, which is rarely the norm. Here are three ways security teams can make effective improvements while creating the common ground needed to sustain them.

Seek to Understand and Empathize

Corporate IT teams remain surprisingly siloed, which makes fundamental yet essential cyber hygiene functions such as vulnerability and patch management difficult to do well. Reducing vulnerability-related IT risk isn't possible without contributions from both security and IT operations teams. Teamwork is hard, and even simple cyber hygiene workflows are easily complicated, often by the division of labor across different teams.

Security teams are usually the ones that find vulnerabilities, while other IT teams (mainly IT operations and DevOps teams) are the ones that fix the issues. When those fixes don't work as planned, it can impede their ability to preserve the availability and reliability of infrastructure. The bottom line is that full-stack security isn't trivial and requires compromise and collaboration across all stakeholders.

As the pandemic has reminded us, the simple act of connecting with another human being can have a profound impact on the personal and professional resilience of all parties. Take the initiative to reach out to colleagues on other teams. Ask what a successful day looks like for them, about the tools they use and love, the processes that work well and don't work at all. With normal processes and interpersonal communications upended, now's the time for security teams to connect with their counterparts on other teams and (re)forge the connections that lead to productive partnerships.

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Flying High with Cannabis

As more states legalize, questions raised over bringing marijuana across state lines

As states across the U.S. are going either medical or recreational with their cannabis laws, it can be difficult to effectively regulate cannabis with travel amongst legal states. Recreational cannabis has been legal in places like Colorado and California for a while now. Even with cannabis being federally illegal at this point in time, some areas are becoming more relaxed regarding traveling with cannabis in carry-on luggage between states that mutually agree with cannabis legalization.

On the Los Angeles Airport Police Department's website, the APD stated that California Police Officers will now allow passengers to travel through LAX with up to 28.5 grams of marijuana and 8 grams of concentrated marijuana. Both states must have the same legal stance on cannabis, however, passengers are still made aware that cannabis may not be consumed while at the airport, even while in clubs or lounges.

Many people in the United States travel across state lines to reach better health care services and rates than what is available close to home. Along the same lines, cannabis consumers, especially patients consuming it for an alternative medicine, want to continue to have access to their legal cannabis. With the allowance of traveling with a small amount, this flexibility allows for users to safely use regulated cannabis products as opposed to black market unregulated untested cannabis products.

This case brings up the question, though: What happens if you have a connecting flight in a state that does not allow cannabis of any kind? Planes themselves are still subject to federal law, meaning there is still the possibility of facing fines or detention for traveling with any THC products. But with carry-on luggage being so easily accessible while at the airport and in flight, monitoring personnel could have difficulty regulating passengers traveling with cannabis. These issues, along with diversion prevention rules in place, make this evolving issue something to watch in the coming years. sapphirerisk.com

Credit Unions and Hemp: New Federal Guidance is Here!
Last week, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued new guidance ("Guidance") for federally-chartered credit unions serving the hemp industry. All of us at Harris Bricken were excited to see the Guidance released: NCUA retained us last fall to advise the government on this project, and we have always represented credit union clients as to cannabis business services.

The Guidance is structured in an easily digestible Q&A format: it comes with clarifications, assurances and no real surprises. Fundamentally, the Guidance is "advisory and provides no new expectations or requirements for credit unions." At issue is the impact that hemp businesses banking may have on credit union obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act and implementing regulations, sometimes known as anti-money laundering legal authority ("AML").  cannabisbusinessexecutive.com   Read the guidance here

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