Enterprise risk and law enforcement professionals convened June 8 – 10, 2026, in Grapevine, Texas, for NRF PROTECT 2026.
Leaders tackled today’s most urgent threats — from organized retail crime and workplace violence to third-party risk — while exploring how cross-functional strategies and smarter technologies are reshaping enterprise security risk across physical and digital environments.
Read on for highlights from this year’s event.
The 2026 NRF PROTECT Recap video is coming soon!
NRF PROTECT delivered practical insights and actionable strategies to help organizations navigate today’s evolving enterprise security risk landscape. Across sessions and discussions, the event reinforced the need for a proactive, connected approach — grounded in cross-functional collaboration, innovation and shared responsibility across the enterprise.
Four key themes emerged among the many sessions and conversations:
Retailers are facing an increasingly complex threat environment that spans physical, digital, financial and reputational risks. Sessions highlighted the importance of enterprise security risk management — aligning teams across physical and digital environments to identify, mitigate and respond to interconnected threats. A holistic approach enables organizations to move from reactive responses to proactive, intelligence-driven risk management.
Keynote and leadership sessions reinforced that resilience in today’s environment depends on strong cross-functional alignment and external collaboration. Engaging with industry peers, law enforcement and strategic partners is essential to tackling shared challenges. Attendees explored new leadership approaches for navigating complexity, strengthening decision-making and elevating the strategic influence of security and LP/AP functions within the enterprise.
As retail threats grow more sophisticated, the scope of loss prevention and asset protection continues to expand. Sessions highlighted a shift beyond traditional shrink management toward a broader enterprise security lens. Sessions focused on organized retail crime, workplace violence prevention, shrink and loss management, and the need for LP/AP leaders to work more closely with cross-functional partners to address broader enterprise security risk.
The rising impact of return fraud and other digital schemes is pushing organizations to rethink how they identify and respond to fraud and pushing leaders to explore how to better recognize, prevent and respond to fraud across the organization. Sessions emphasized collaboration across teams to address fast-evolving fraud threats, including refund abuse and emerging digital risk patterns.
