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How to Create a Highly-Secure Retail Device Environment

In General
June 09, 2021



Customer’s retail behaviors have evolved rapidly since the beginning of 2020 – McKinsey described this forward leap as “a decade [of change] in days.” As a result, retailers have had to drive mobile transformation at lightning speed, rapidly adopting Android edge devices for mission-critical use cases such as self-serve checkout, contactless payments, inventory management, and more. Eighty-seven percent of retailers believe smart edge devices are critical to the success of the business.

But, there’s evidence that many retailers struggle to scale security and compliance to the Android edge. Forty-five percent of product teams admit they cut corners on basic protections, according to the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index (MSI), even though many know that mobile threats are on the rise. 

Retail is a highly targeted industry for data breaches. Threat actors are more likely to target retail than other industries, and 99 percent of attacks are financially-motivated…



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