Industries · Retail

Every register open. Even on the biggest day.

Retail runs on days you cannot repeat. The job: the peak holds, the cards stay safe, the doors stay open, because the paths to the tills were tested before the rush.

The peak

The biggest day holds. Every hour of it.

Peak trading day, hour by hour. Testing found the card-skim route at checkout and closed it before the doors opened.

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One route to the cards. Found in testing, closed before openingEvery register open, end to end · schematic day
The problem

What retail is up against.

Hover or select any one to see what it means.

A surface that never closes

Online storefront, hundreds of stores, warehouses, kiosks, and corporate: all live, all reachable, none of it ever fully inventoried.

The payment / POS path

The card reader at the till, the gateway, the CDE behind it: the path that turns a foothold into mass card theft.

E-commerce logic flaws

Coupon stacking, price manipulation, refund abuse: valid requests that break the rules of your business, not the rules of HTTP.

The third-party till

Payment processors, tag managers, fulfilment, marketing scripts: each integration bolted onto checkout is a path to your customer.

Peak-season change freeze

Patches deferred, exceptions granted, and a code freeze that runs straight through the most valuable, most attacked weeks of your year.

The problem

A surface that never closes

Every store is a tiny branch office with its own switch, Wi-Fi, and a back door someone propped open for the delivery guy. Multiply by your store count and you have a perimeter no scanner ever finishes mapping, and attackers only need the one branch you forgot about.

  • Store, web, warehouse, and corp as one graph
  • Shadow assets and forgotten store gear surfaced
  • Tested the way an attacker moves between them
Continuous attack surface →
The problem

The payment / POS path

PCI scope is wherever card data flows, and in most retailers it flows further than the diagram admits. We follow it from the POS terminal through the store network to the gateway and into the CDE, looking for the segmentation gap that lets the rest of your estate reach the cardholder data.

  • POS, gateway, and CDE tested end to end
  • Segmentation proven by trying to cross it
  • Card-data flows traced past where the diagram stops
Application & API security →
The problem

E-commerce logic flaws

A scanner sees a 200 OK and moves on; it has no idea you just sold a $2,000 TV for the price of the gift wrap. Business-logic abuse lives in the gap between what your checkout allows and what you meant it to allow, and that gap only shows up when a human tries to cheat it.

  • Checkout, pricing, coupon, refund flows abused on purpose
  • Account, order, inventory APIs tested for logic flaws
  • Fraud paths a compliance scan never reaches
Application & API security →
The problem

The third-party till

Your checkout page loads code from people you’ve never met, and a Magecart skimmer doesn’t care which of them got popped, only that the card form is yours. We test the integrations and third-party scripts that sit between your customer and their wallet, and the access those vendors hold into your environment.

  • Third-party scripts and tag managers reviewed
  • Vendor and processor access into your network tested
  • Client-side skimming and supply-chain paths exercised
Supply chain risk →
The problem

Peak-season change freeze

The freeze that protects revenue also freezes your fixes, so the gaps you found in October are still wide open on the day you make a year of margin. Attackers know the calendar as well as you do, so we test before the freeze and validate that the controls holding peak together actually hold.

  • Tested ahead of freeze so fixes land before peak
  • Availability paths to the storefront validated
  • Deferred-patch risk made visible to the board
Ransomware readiness →
How an attacker gets in

Every route converges on the same prizes: the cards, the customers, the doors.

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What you get: every path to them, mapped and ranked by what actually reaches the registers.

Red teaming →
The rules of the register

The bar the card brands set, and how we test to it.

PCI sets the floor. The real bar is whether one compromised path can reach every till you run.

PCI-DSS

Req 11: external, internal and segmentation testing, at least annually.

We test every path from storefront to cardholder data, and prove the segments hold.

GDPR / CCPA

Customer and loyalty data protected by demonstrable measures (Art 32).

We test where that data can actually be reached, before regulators or attackers do.

SOC 2

Security and availability commitments under the Trust Services Criteria.

We test what your monitoring actually catches when someone moves.

Compliance & risk alignment →
Proof at retail scale
12 days

to global data access at a $100B retailer. Our red team, not an attacker.

Four operators chained physical and digital across stores, past $329M of security spend, undetected, so every one of those paths could be closed.

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