# Professor Vasant Dhar highlights the need for retailers to protect their customers' data in light of the Lord and Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue security breach

1 Faculty News April 2, 2018 ![CBS News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031726.jpg?itok=XPqKNXWl)>

Excerpt from [CBS News](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/02/retail-data-breach-lord-and-taylor-saks-fifth-avenue/) -- "[Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) said companies need to start being proactive and treat customer data as first class. 'This is a CEO-level issue. It isn’t something that you slough off to your tech person and say, "hey, prevent these things from happening,"' he said."

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