ProSec Global
Industries / In focus
  • Retail & e-commerce
  • Media & publishers
  • Sports & entertainment

Retail, Media & Leisure

Your business depends on reach, availability and direct customer access. Platforms, payment processes and data are often spread across several service providers. When a central function fails, the effect is not only internal – customers, audience and the market notice it immediately.

Availability
An outage costs revenue at exactly the moment it happens.
Third-party operation
You are responsible for systems that you do not operate yourself.
Customer data
Large customer data holdings increase responsibility and the possible consequences of every disruption.
Public attention
What happens at your company is known within hours.
What we encounter in this environment
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An outage costs you not only operating time, but immediately revenue and visibility in the market. At the same time, your platform runs at one service provider, your payments at a second and part of your customer data at further partners. In the boardroom, the same question therefore quickly arises: who ultimately bears responsibility when the decisive systems are operated outside your own company?
How we see it

Outsourcing changes operational responsibility, but not the expectations of customers, the market or supervisors. What matters is therefore whether you keep a reliable picture of your dependencies even across external platforms and service providers.

Typical framework conditions

What makes this environment challenging.

In retail, media and leisure, service is frequently created at the interface of audience, platforms and partners. Availability has a direct effect on revenue and perception. We encounter three patterns in this environment again and again.

Recurring patterns from our practice
01

Disruptions have an audience

Disruptions often become visible before their cause has been clarified internally. Public attention and customer reaction therefore usually run in parallel with the technical analysis.

02

The customer only sees the brand

Platform, payment and data partly lie with service providers. From the customers’ point of view, the responsibility nevertheless remains with the company.

03

Customer data is capital and obligation

Customer data enables personalization, sales and customer loyalty. At the same time, the responsibility for protection, use and availability grows with it.

Requirements that play a role
01GDPR
02ISO 27001
03PCI DSS
04NIS2
05Requirements of payment service providers
On an equal footing

Your contact for Retail, Media & Leisure.

Talk to someone who knows your environment.

A confidential conversation at leadership level. We assess your situation and also tell you if another address would be the right one.

Tim Schughart
Group CEO | ProSec Global