Retail under siege: the rise of AI-driven cybercrime

This is the first in a series of articles, featuring exclusive insight from Richard Meeus, EMEA director of security technology and strategy at Akamai and Stephen Faulkner, chief technologist for security at CDW UK.
Richard Meeus
There’s no time in the retail calendar as vital as the Golden Quarter. According to Adobe data, UK consumers spent an eye-watering £1.12 billion on Black Friday alone in 2024. Needless to say, getting your strategy in place for another record-breaking year i