It goes without saying that most of the Retail industry has not been able to capture near their sales volumes prior to Covid-19. The National Restaurant Association alone reports that over $25 billion in restaurant industry sales were lost during the month of March and projected losses are expected to top $225 billion by June. According to IHL, Retail as an industry in North America is down $45 billion from forecasted revenue. These sobering statistics paint a picture of the state of the industry as a whole but through it all we see another side to the story. That is one of courage, ingenuity, foresight, and continued Retail Resiliency.

Retailers are adapting by expanding their digital presence and creating new operational models to reach their customers. This rapid innovation has allowed retailers maintain operations and navigate the waters in these challenging times. Unfortunately, threat actors see things differently; they see an opportunity to capitalize when retailers are most vulnerable. Businesses have been trying to rapidly evolve their security posture by buying point solutions to protect the new connections, network traffic, and data that comes with those new technologies…but it’s hard for them to keep up and to stitch it all together. This is where Fortinet is helping these customers in their time of need.

In this session, we will discuss how Fortinet’s Secure SD-Branch solution, which includes SD-WAN, FortiGate, FortiSwitch and FortiAP, all centrally managed through one platform, are weaved into the Fortinet Security Fabric to protect and defend the evolving retail environment, network, and data. This provides retailers confidence in knowing they are protected from the new and emerging threats that come with the “new normal” and lets them focus on what is important: their business and serving their customers.