Today's security professionals have a daunting task: keep their employees and customers safe. They must defend against active physical assailants and theft, while protecting their various online networks. They must protect their brand's reputation, control shrinkage, and continue to stay ahead of the continually improving cyber threats.
There are opportunistic shoplifters, internal "sweethearting", and large-scale, organized retail crime rings; all must be considered daily, if not hourly, simultaneously.
Solutions that focus on all of this protection, and maintaining a safe, inviting space for customers takes significant time and research.
Retailers must hire, and retain top talent. These employees present cohesive ROI plans to CFOs and COOs in order to fund their technology solutions for today's problems, and tomorrow's challenges.
Finding, vetting, and testing also falls to these teams. What they are being tasked with is becoming too much.
This is why Lighthouse was formed.