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Safeguarding Customer Data: The Critical Role of Encryption in Automotive Retail

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Several high-profile data breaches have highlighted the vulnerabilities in the automotive retail sector: DriveSure Data Breach (2020) : A cyberattack on DriveSure, a company providing customer retention tools for car dealerships, exposed the personal information of 3 million customers, including names, addresses and vehicle details.

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Not-So-Sexy Hot Tactics to Fight Cyber Risk

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The World Economic Forum released in September this interesting advisory to mitigate cyber threats from ransomware: • Install updates for operating systems, software and firmware when released. car dealerships fell to 34% in 2021, according to JM&A’s 2022 Ultimate Guide to Dealership Growth.

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Hunter Engineering: ADAS Calibration & Connectivity Drive Growth

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Today, we’re sharing an interview our sister publication aftermarketNews conducted, which we think you’ll find informative and insightful for the new car dealership as well. We started thinking outside of IoT, and that’s where HunterNet 2 (Hunter’s software that allows shops to track and manage ROI on their Hunter machines) came about.