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Is cybersecurity a bigger threat than tariffs?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-25 00:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. If there\u2019s one thing businesses today are afraid of\u2014ahead of potentially losing customers\u2014it\u2019s cybersecurity.Per a recent study from supply chain intelligence firm Zero100, over a third of businesses considered cyber incidents \u201cthe single biggest threat to continuity\u201d in 2026, followed by geopolitical instability (20%), trade policy shocks (16%), and labor disruption (8%).The findings, which were based on responses from COOs of companies with a more than $1 billion valuation, also found that cyber incidents were the \u201cfastest-moving shock\u201d businesses anticipated facing.COOs were split on whether AI will help or hurt: 50% said it could improve cyber-risk mitigation, while 43% said it would likely make things worse. Meanwhile, fewer than 1 in 5 respondents believe AI will live up to the ambitious productivity and efficiency timelines being sold to shareholders.\u201cA major cyber failure can do far more immediate damage than tariffs or trade disputes to company profitability\u2014and even entire economies, as last year\u2019s JLR incident in the UK demonstrated,\u201d Lauren Acoba, VP of research and advisory services at Zero100, said in a statement, adding that \u201cwhile CEOs are talking up AI to shareholders as a productivity engine, inside the business the mood is far more guarded. Operations leaders believe in AI\u2019s potential, but they don\u2019t believe the timelines.\u201dThese concerns aren\u2019t unfounded. While many retailers in the UK have had firsthand experience with cyberattacks, a May 2025 report from Google Threat Intelligence Group and its subsidiary Mandiant found certain cybercrime groups were targeting US-based retail companies.To get ahead of it, many companies have been ramping up investments in technologies such as biometrics, tokenization, and AI-driven monitoring systems to detect and prevent increasingly sophisticated attacks and fraudulent transactions.Retail news that keeps industry pros in the knowRetail Brew delivers the latest retail industry news and insights surrounding marketing, DTC, and e-commerce to keep leaders and decision-makers up to date.
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