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AI Security Study: Closing the Gap in Enterprise AI Security

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RETAIL & CONSUMER BRANDS

Defenses That Hold Up Under Real Pressure

UltraViolet practitioners identify how attackers could reach checkout, customer data, and connected third parties, then use those findings to build detections into your existing tools without disrupting systems that need to stay online.

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45%

Reduction in a large retailer’s SIEM log ingestion, with savings exceeding UltraViolet’s service costs.

6+ yrs 

Providing mobile app testing for a global consumer brand that selected UltraViolet in annual competitive reviews.

112 findings

Documented across 14 payment apps by certified testers, meeting a regulatory deadline despite expanded scope.

2 wks

On-site support from UltraViolet engineers to build a kiosk test environment a brand wasn’t ready to build alone.

* Results and examples from separate retail and consumer brand engagements.
Why ultraviolet for retail and consumer brands

Turn Offensive Findings into Defensive Action

UltraViolet unites offense and defense so each informs the other. Your teams use red team findings to guide blue team action, protect checkout and payment systems from real-world threats, and demonstrate how well those defenses hold up.


Strengthen Defenses Against Real-World Tradecraft
Find attack paths across POS, e-commerce, APIs, and mobile apps on real devices. Red team findings sharpen SOC detections and playbooks.
Protect Every Customer Touchpoint
Named practitioners who know your environment provide 24/7 monitoring, along with proactive threat hunting, across stores, e-commerce, and loyalty systems.
Prove Your Defenses Hold Up Under Scrutiny
CREST-accredited testing, retests, and documented remediation give leadership and your QSA clear evidence for PCI DSS assessments.
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No. 19 Managed Security Service Provider
No. 2642 Fastest-Growing Private Company 
Trailblazing MSSP 
Customer Outcomes

How a Global E-Commerce Company Met Its Payment App Testing Deadline Despite an Expanding Scope

A Certified Testing Team, Built in Weeks

Global E-commerce Enterprise

When a global e-commerce leader lost its testing vendor, it needed 14 payment applications tested to meet India’s CERT-IN compliance mandate. UltraViolet assembled a certified testing team in a few weeks, documented 112 findings, and earned an A rating.

 

The Challenge

  • The prior vendor’s exit left UPI payment applications without the CERT-IN-empaneled testing required under India’s government mandate.
  • UltraViolet Cyber did not hold the CERT-IN certification, and no existing team could meet the empanelment requirement.
  • During the engagement, the client added mobile application testing to the scope, a first for this account.
  • Fourteen applications needed testing on tight timelines, requiring coordination across multiple TPMs and service team stakeholders.

The Solution

  • Assembled a CERT-IN-qualified vendor team in India within weeks, interviewing, onboarding, and equipping contractors.
  • Reassessed candidates and quickly found qualified mobile testers when the client added mobile applications to the scope.
  • Trained the new team on the client’s custom testing methods and followed mandated processes throughout the engagement.
  • Provided dedicated technical oversight and project management to clarify expectations, flag risks early, and support every stakeholder.
  • Quality and on-time delivery earned UltraViolet a place among the few vendors shortlisted the following year.

 

Grounded in Regulations, Frameworks, and Standards That Make Security Measurable

We map engagement findings and defensive coverage to established regulations, frameworks, and standards. This gives your team a consistent way to measure exposure, validate progress, evaluate AI risk, and communicate resilience to boards, regulators, and auditors.

USE CASES WE SOLVE

Aligned to Your Priorities

Start with your highest-priority risks, then paln testing, detection, response, and response around your release schedule and peak shopping seasons. Give your security team, developers, and SOC practical next steps to protect customer data, secure transactions, and keep storefronts and payment systems running.

Secure Digital Storefronts and Applications

Find attack paths across carts, APIs, mobile apps, and AI shopping assistants, testing on real iOS and Android devices you don't maintain. Findings are prioritized by risk to purchases and customer data.

Penetration Testing · AI Security Services 

Assess Point-of-Sale and Payment Security

Assess in-store POS terminals, payment gateways, and cardholder data flows for the skimming or tampering paths attackers use. Findings inform SOC detections and support your PCI DSS evidence.

Red Team Services · Penetration Testing

Validate Defenses Around Customer Data

Red team exercises trace paths to loyalty databases, CRM, and PII stores, including the third-party integrations and OAuth grants recent data-theft campaigns abused. See where defenses work and where gaps remain.

Red Team Services

Harden the Help Desk and Identity Layer

Assess how support teams handle impersonation, MFA resets, and SIM-swap pretexts. 24/7 monitoring, tuned by those findings, helps flag credential stuffing and account takeover across checkout and loyalty.

Red Team Services  ·  Managed SOC  ·  Dedicated Defense

Modernize Detection Before Peak Season

Migrate legacy SIEMs with a phased, repeatable methodology, running old and new in parallel to validate detections and timing cutover around peak periods. Consolidate logging and tune alerts so analysts focus on real threat. 

Managed SOC · Dedicated Defense

Rehearse Your Response Before an Incident

Live-fire purple team exercises replay ransomware and data-theft tactics used by malicious actors targeting retail. See how your team detects, investigates, and contains each one, then address the gaps together.

Purple Team Exercises 

Threat Advisory · Consumer Brands

A Breach at One Brand Can Expose the Whole Portfolio

UltraViolet TIDE examines an Anubis ransomware attack on a major beverage company’s dairy subsidiary that involved data theft, infrastructure encryption, and production disruption. Get our analysts’ recommended detections and response steps for retail and consumer environments.

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Anubis

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you assess the security of customer-facing AI?

We examine what your AI systems, including chatbots, personalization engines, and recommendation tools, can access, share, and act on. Testing covers risks such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and misuse of connected tools, using MITRE ATLAS and OWASP guidance for LLM applications.

Our AI Security Program Assessment can also help you evaluate security practices across your organization, benchmark your maturity with retail peers, and prioritize what to fix first.