Tales from the Front Lines: Retailer Prepares for Holiday Bot Battle in a Matter of Weeks

Following on the retail win posted previously, this week’s win is a clothing and home décor retailer that had an account takeover/credential validation challenge that their incumbent solution was unable to address. Bad actors were targeting APIs suppor… Continue reading Tales from the Front Lines: Retailer Prepares for Holiday Bot Battle in a Matter of Weeks

Tales from the Front Lines: How Third-Party APIs Simplify Enumeration Attacks

As a mechanism to offload PCI risks, many retailers are now using third-party credit card processing for their online transactions. The retailer’s benefit is they are no longer handling the credit card data, thereby reducing the cardholder footprint (a… Continue reading Tales from the Front Lines: How Third-Party APIs Simplify Enumeration Attacks

Tales from the Front Lines: Maintaining Detection Efficacy (and Your Cool) in the Summer Heat

In a previous blog, I talked about how the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown had corresponded to an increase in attack intensity. Since then, different parts of the country have begun to reopen, and in some cases reclosing, yet the attackers have maintained t… Continue reading Tales from the Front Lines: Maintaining Detection Efficacy (and Your Cool) in the Summer Heat