Industry
Security for Retail & Travel
Online storefronts, payment flows, and customer accounts are tested by attackers around the clock, especially during peak sales windows when defenses are stretched thin.
AVG COST OF A RETAIL DATA BREACH - AND CLIMBING WITH EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON
OF E-COMMERCE TRAFFIC IS MALICIOUS AUTOMATION - CREDENTIAL STUFFING & SCRAPING BOTS
Securing retail and e-commerce means protecting customer data, payment integrity, and brand reputation across web, mobile, and third-party integrations. It requires hardened public surfaces, careful third-party JavaScript governance, and the ability to scale defenses during traffic peaks without slowing the customer experience.
Why it matters
One Bad Black Friday Erases Years
E-commerce sees the highest concentration of automated attacks on the internet. PCI DSS sets a regulatory floor, but the bar customers actually expect is far higher, a single visible incident during peak season can erase years of brand trust overnight.
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Bots Outnumber Buyers
Up to a third of all e-commerce traffic is hostile automation: credential stuffing, inventory scraping, gift-card cracking, and payment fraud probing every endpoint, every minute.
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Magecart-Class Supply Chain Risk
Third-party JavaScript on checkout pages remains the #1 source of high-impact breaches. One compromised tag and every card entered for weeks ends up on a criminal exfil server.
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Trust Is the Real Product
PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA fines hurt, but loss of customer trust hurts more. Breached retailers see measurable, multi-quarter drops in conversion long after technical recovery.
Regulatory landscape, India
Compliance built for Indian retail & travel
Every engagement is aligned to the regulations that actually apply to your sector in India, so your security programme satisfies auditors and regulators, not just a checklist.
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PCI DSS 4.0
Mandatory for any business handling card payments. We deliver readiness, segmentation testing, and audit-ready evidence for retail and travel platforms.
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DPDP Act, 2023
Customer accounts, loyalty programs, and booking data are personal data under India's DPDP Act, requiring consent, rights handling, and breach notification.
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CERT-In Directions (2022)
6-hour incident reporting and log retention apply to e-commerce and travel platforms operating in India.
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GDPR / CCPA (for global buyers)
Retailers and travel brands serving EU or US customers also align to GDPR and CCPA. We cover Indian and international obligations together.
How we help
Three services that matter most
Of our 46 services, these are the ones we would recommend a retail & travel team start with.
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Web Application Pentesting
Storefronts, checkout flows, and partner APIs. We test the surfaces attackers actually probe, including business logic flaws like coupon abuse and payment manipulation.
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Cloud Pentesting
Most modern e-commerce runs on AWS, Azure, or GCP behind containerized services. We surface misconfigurations, exposed buckets, and exploitable IAM paths.
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Compliance & Certification
PCI DSS readiness, SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA: gap assessments and audit-ready documentation tailored to high-volume customer-facing platforms.
Solutions
Platforms we deploy for retail & travel
Partner technology and outcome-based solutions we implement and run for retail & travel teams, matched to the threats above.
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Trellix Data Loss Prevention
Stop cardholder and loyalty data leaving through email, cloud, and endpoints, with policies mapped to PCI DSS scope.
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CryptoBind Data Masking
Tokenise and mask PAN and customer PII in non-production and analytics environments to shrink PCI scope.
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Harden the mailboxes store, franchise, and travel-desk teams live in against phishing, BEC, and invoice fraud.
FAQ
Common questions
01How much of e-commerce traffic is actually malicious?
Up to a third of all e-commerce traffic is hostile automation (credential stuffing, inventory scraping, gift-card cracking, and payment-fraud probing) running continuously, not just during peak sales.
02What is Magecart risk, and does it apply to us?
Magecart-style attacks compromise third-party JavaScript on checkout pages and remain the leading source of high-impact retail breaches, since one compromised tag can skim card data from every transaction for weeks before detection.
03What's required for PCI DSS compliance?
PCI DSS 4.0 is mandatory for any business handling card payments. We deliver readiness assessments, segmentation testing, and audit-ready evidence for retail and travel platforms.
04Do you test around peak sales periods like Black Friday?
Yes. Retail and travel platforms need defenses validated before traffic peaks, not during them, since a single visible incident during a high-traffic window can erase years of customer trust.
05What data protection laws apply to Indian e-commerce and travel platforms?
The DPDP Act, 2023 covers customer accounts, loyalty programs, and booking data as personal data, requiring consent and breach notification. CERT-In mandates 6-hour incident reporting, and platforms serving EU or US customers also need GDPR/CCPA alignment.
06Do you test cloud infrastructure, or just the storefront?
Both. Most modern e-commerce runs on AWS, Azure, or GCP behind containerized services, so we test cloud misconfigurations and IAM paths alongside the storefront and checkout flow itself.
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