“Retailers not surprisingly are on edge entering this year’s holiday shopping season after an epic wave of data breaches this past year. Adding to their stress: The shopping season also marks an annual ‘holiday freeze’ period, where no new security tools or other IT projects go live as critical transaction and other supporting systems must be locked in top performance and availability mode. In many cases, only the most critical security patches get installed, with others put on hold until the busy holiday shopping season concludes.”
Source: Retailers Facing Intensified Cyberthreat This Holiday Season
