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Retail and e-commerce are the industries most often targeted by adversaries. Choose cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions to ensure that your business, customers, and reputation remain unscathed.
With the ever-growing customer base, brands are finding it challenging to collect and secure customers’ personal data and prevent data breaches. Businesses impacted by data breach incidents witness decreased consumer engagement, reduced sales, financial losses, and devaluation of their brand.
the average data breach costs a company $3.86 million and takes 280 days to contain
Enable constant user behaviour monitoring to help identify suspicious logins and prevent account takeover attacks in real time.
Group-IB provides threat intelligence about the latest account takeover threats and techniques. It also monitors the darkweb and fraudster forums for any activity targetting your institutions, specifically letting you know when OCGs are planning an attack against your organization or your clients.
Establish a system for continuous tracking and reporting of data breaches that take place on both dark and open web sources.
Uncover hidden vulnerabilities, unauthorized activity, and misconfigurations within your environment to limit exposure to threat actors.
Сontinuously control your external IT assets to detect misconfigured databases and vulnerable applications and prevent breaches.
Identify and prevent malicious activities in real-time and gain automated threat hunting and attribution capabilities.
Data reveals that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. Insider threats are particularly high in retail and e-commerce because frontline employees and contractors often lack the necessary cybersecurity training, which leads to frequent oversights.
over the past two years, insider threats in the retail industry have grown by 38%
Train employees to secure sensitive information, recognize suspicious activity, and effectively follow cybersecurity protocols to withstand potential cyberattacks.
Stay on top of security challenges that come with business integrations, malicious insiders, and new vendors by conducting regular security audits.
Keep your customers and corporate interests protected from negligent or malicious insiders through monitoring data access, data exfiltration, and flagging any unusual user behaviour.
Protect your employees and critical information against phishing, malware, and other blended (email and web-based) attacks by comprehensively securing corporate email accounts.
Phishing attacks target either a brand's customers or its employees, aiming to steal sensitive information or gain access to valuable assets. These attacks employ deceptive methods like emails, text messages, phone calls, fake websites, and even social engineering techniques to manipulate individuals into engaging with malicious links.
phishing was responsible for more than 20% of ecommerce data breaches
Activate 24/7 monitoring of your digital footprint (domain names, websites, social media, etc) to detect and prioritize threats and actions.
Takedown fraudulent and malicious resources in real-time that abuse the company’s brand name such as phishing domains, fraudulent websites, fake social network accounts, fake advertisement, fake mobile apps.
Safeguard your business against diverse frauds, including social engineering, phishing, and scams across all your digital platforms.
Protect your employees and critical information against phishing, malware, and other blended (email and web-based) attacks by comprehensively securing corporate email accounts.
Given the recent increase in ransomware attacks targeting the retail sector, with threat actors using tactics like phishing, exploiting unpatched devices, and deploying malware at entry points, it is critical to enable preemptive security measures to prevent extortion attempts.
of the retailer reported having their data encrypted as a result of the ransomware attack
Gain complete visibility of your security operations, including endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, emails, and networks, to strengthen defenses against ransomware attacks.
Benefit from pre-negotiated proactive and reactive cybersecurity services to ensure the fastest response to incidents, thereby minimizing their potential impact.
Detect indicators of compromise (IOCs) and gather evidence of pre-attack preparations by hackers to conduct in-depth investigations and subsequent mitigation steps.
Prevent ransomware attacks, breaches, and their associated risks by continuously controlling your external IT assets.
Respond to cyberattacks by implementing a strategic and time-sensitive incident response plan with the guidance of our leading experts.
Retailers have access to a vast amount of customer data such as personal information, credit card details, and purchase history. To keep data secure, it is essential to always comply with the regulatory standards in force.
By the end of 2023, 75% of the world's population will be subject to privacy regulations that include subject rights requests
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): The GDPR is a European Union regulation that sets strict rules on how personal data can be collected, stored, and used.
Prioritize data protection needs based on compliance, cost and business value, and associated risks.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS): The PCI DSS is a set of security standards designed to protect payment card data. The PCI DSS applies to all organizations that accept card payments, including retail and e-commerce.
Identify and mitigate security gaps through trend analysis and risk-reduction recommendations.
E-commerce and omnichannel retail industries have experienced a surge in fraudulent activities such as account takeover, loyalty program fraud, Cloned App, Antidetect browsers, affiliate fraud, card not present (CNP) fraud, return fraud, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) fraud. E-commerce platforms must adopt advanced detection and prevention solutions to mitigate these risks.
In 2022, e-commerce losses to online payment fraud were estimated at $41 billion globally
Group-IB Fraud Protection solution successfully identifies suspicious activity indicative of an ATO in all digital channels. It includes login attempts from unusual locations, changes in account activity patterns, anti-detect browsers, RAT, or social engineering. The solution also analyzes user behavior to distinguish genuine users from fraudsters.
Continuously monitor user sessions for anomalous behavior to identify suspicious activities and transactions and block fraudulent ones.
Identify money mule accounts and the criminal network that uses these accounts to withdraw and launder stolen money.
Group-IB Fraud Protection scrutinizes the creation of new seller accounts, analyzing factors such as account registration frequency, High-Risk emails, IP address history, and device fingerprinting to identify anomalies and suspicious patterns. This helps identify accounts created by bots or automated scripts, which are common tools used for account farming.
Group-IB Fraud Protection leverages Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence Ecosystem to stay abreast of emerging fraud trends, including the latest tactics employed by fraudsters. This real-time threat intelligence is integrated into the solution’s fraud detection algorithms, enabling it to identify and block accounts associated with known fraud patterns.
Websites and applications are the front face of many businesses, and attackers often try to break into them. Common motives include wanting to disrupt performance or obtain sensitive data for the purpose of secondary attacks. Regularly analyzing and mitigating potential threats is therefore crucial.
as of 2023, 4.1 million websites are infected with malware
Enable continuous monitoring of all your external IT assets to immediately inform your security teams about issues broke down by asset category and risk level, based on the quantitative risk score that prioritizes improvements.
Protect against DDoS and automated attacks that cause disruption by overwhelming your website or application with traffic from various sources, resulting in crashes, secondary attack attempts, and negative impact on sales.
Get a detailed analysis of your unmanaged assets (shadow IT), web app vulnerabilities, and other hidden risks to strengthen your website and application’s security.
Combat brand abuse such as online counterfeiting, and brand impersonation, and prioritize appropriate takedown tactics.
