The NRF Retail Fraud Taxonomy is a knowledge base of retail fraud and abuse techniques derived from real-world observations, aimed at enhancing the community's ability to define, understand, prepare for, mitigate, and detect fraud. The Taxonomy provides coverage of fraud behaviors, mitigations, and detections from a wide range of fraud professionals. By categorizing techniques and related countermeasures, the Framework serves as an effective tool for education, communication, security assessments, team exercises, and resource prioritization.
The NRF Retail Fraud Taxonomy is a collaborative initiative led and sponsored by the National Retail Federation, through its Center for Digital Risk & Innovation (CDRI), in partnership with Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) and the Target Corporation along with other retail industry members. The Chertoff Group serves as technical advisor and project manager.
NRF and its partners plan to further update this taxonomy over the coming year and develop new tools to support its use and adoption. If you are interested in participating in these activities, please reach out to NRF at cdri@nrf.com.