Five Tips to Stop Ransomware from Crippling Your Restaurant’s POS System

POS systems are mission critical for restaurants and retailers. They feed sales information into revenue and accounting management systems and often handle inventory control, purchasing, receiving, and product transfers among locations. In addition, those systems typically link to information on sales, customer returns, reporting, and sales trends, as well as cost, profit, and price analysis. 

And while POS malware attacks continue to make headlines and wreak havoc with both brand reputations and profit margins, it’s becoming clear that an even greater threat is gaining ground, as cybercriminals continue to hold one municipality after another hostage for ransom. You don’t need a crystal ball to conjure up what could happen next. In fact, industry experts have recently noted that a cybercrime group known primarily for hacking retailers and stealing payment card details from POS systems has changed tactics to deploying ransomware to the POS system network. 

What makes the threat…