Retail and quick services restaurants are getting smarter. Stores are layering in agentic AI assistants, computer vision at the shelf, and a dense mix of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. That pushes more decisions at the edge, puts more data in motion, and creates more non‑human users to manage. All of that together means that retail’s attack surface is growing, and fast. Retailers in turn are adopting comprehensive, multi-layer cybersecurity strategies and enforcing identity and data policies that travel with users, devices, and workloads across every location and the cloud.