Consumers are expected to spend hundreds of pounds during Black Friday, which has become an increasingly significant event for numerous companies and millions of shoppers. To ensure a smooth buying and selling experience, it is crucial for both businesses and individuals to effectively prevent cyber-attacks on Black Friday that could lead to the theft of personal information, financial losses, or fraud.
Cyber Attacks targeting e-commerce during Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holiday season have emerged as a primary concern for malicious actors. These individuals are aware that consumers will engage in a higher volume of online transactions during this period, making them more susceptible to deceptive communications that impersonate legitimate entities. Furthermore, this is a time when they can inflict greater harm on businesses.
It is noteworthy that many consumers are now more vigilant regarding phishing campaigns during this season. However, due to the overwhelming influx of emails and text messages, there remains a significant risk of being misled, even among those who are conscious of such scams.
1. Undergo Ongoing Security Audits
First of all, it is essential that companies perform continuous security audits to analyze all their digital assets. This way, you can look for vulnerabilities in the technological infrastructure, prioritize their remediation and prevent them from being successfully exploited by malicious actors.
2. Conduct Continuous Vulnerability Management and Respond Rffectively to Emerging Vulnerabilities
Along the same lines, it is critical for companies to conduct ongoing vulnerability management that takes into account all of the organization’s digital assets. Only in this way can attacks against the software supply chain be prevented. It also establishes an effective strategy to mitigate the weaknesses found, considering the level of criticality of the same and the possibility of being exploited.
3. Perform Denial-of-Service Testing
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against e-commerce are a classic. Using this technique, malicious actors resort to a botnet to launch requests and saturate e-commerce resources. As a result, online stores cannot respond to requests from customers wishing to buy from them.
4. Conduct Social Engineering Tests and Promote Cyber Security Training and Awareness among Employees and Customers
Social engineering tests are another very important security test that companies can carry out to prepare for Black Friday.
