Industry News Quiz - Episode 1
This month's challenge focuses on retail, cybersecurity, the Cloud, and more. Take the Smartfirm Challenge to find out how well you've kept up with what's happening.
What retail convenience store chain reported a data breach involving the theft and attempted sale of customer payment card information in January 2020?
Everyone knows ecommerce is big. In fact, over $500 billion of goods were sold online the US in 2019.
That's a lot. How much of the total US retail market does ecommerce account for?
In February 2013, Company X's market capitalization was roughly equal to IBM's.
Fast forward seven years to February 2020, and Company X is now worth 11x more than IBM. The CEO of Company X attributes the increase mainly to the Cloud.
Who is Company X?
Who coined the terms, "disruptive innovation" and "the innovator's dilemma"?
U.S. Customs and ICE can search your digital devices at border crossings for no reason.
Amazon is known mainly as a retailer, but also operates a Cloud service. What is the name of Amazon's Cloud?
On January 30, Amazon announced its FY 2019 unaudited financial results. Consolidated revenues were $280 billion, and operating income was $14 billion.
Of this 14 billion, how much do you reckon comes from AWS (the Cloud), in billions?
Earlier, we saw that Wawa, the convenience store chain, is facing lawsuits in relation to data breach, accusing the company of failing to secure its computer systems.
What is the framework used by most companies to secure their IT systems?
What Canadian retailer, originally founded to sell snowboarding equipment, generated $60 billion of online sales in 2019, up from zero in 2013?