A well-known fast food restaurant chain, famous for its burgers, was recently hacked and its point-of-sale (POS) system breached. The result: stolen customer information from more than 5,000 restaurants.   “POS systems are vulnerable and the attacks will continue and become more exotic over time,” stresses Jamal Bethea, marketing insights analyst at Arbor Networks , the security division of NETSCOUT. According to the World Payment Report from 2015, there were more than 350 billion non-cash transactions in 2013, making electronic payments the preferred method of transactions. And, a user research report by Capterra states that, of the 400 surveyed POS buyers, 57 percent preferred on-premise/ installed systems and 43 percent preferred web-based/ hosted services. “Regardless of how a POS is deployed in a business, a cyber-security solution that supports both installed or web-based systems is strategically important,” adds Bethea. He says that ATLAS Intelligence is supported by Arbor...