“…As part of the plan, properties should be aware of laws pertaining to data breach disclosure,
educate staff on protocols, contact law enforcement to see who would have jurisdiction in the case of a breach, and put outside data monitoring and incident response teams on retainer…”
Hotels, the bad guys have their beady eyes on you.
“The more credit cards you have, the more interesting you are to someone,†says Suzanne Widup, senior analyst with Verizon’s RISK team. “You have data that they want.â€
The hotel industry has a big target on its back, agrees Chris Pogue, director at Trustwave, an information security technology and services company, specifically because property management systems, food and beverage, and retail all reside under one roof and a central integration server consolidates all this customer data.
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