Industries · E-commerce
Cybersecurity for E-commerce
Payment data, customer accounts, and a growing web of third-party integrations create a wide application and API attack surface, usually the first place to focus testing for an online retail business.
Where risk concentrates
Payment card data exposure and PCI DSS scope creep
Account takeover via credential stuffing against customer logins
API abuse in checkout, pricing and inventory systems
Compromised third-party scripts and integrations (payment widgets, analytics, chat)
Attack surface
The customer-facing web application, checkout and payment flow, customer account system, and the numerous third-party scripts and integrations most e-commerce platforms accumulate over time.
Regulatory considerations
PCI DSS for any organisation handling card data directly, GDPR for customer personal data, and increasing scrutiny on how third-party scripts running on checkout pages are vetted and monitored.
Business impact
A payment-data breach carries direct regulatory and card-network penalty exposure, on top of the customer trust damage that follows a publicised e-commerce breach, often measurable directly in lost sales.