Closing Cyber Risk Where Brand Trust and Revenue Are Fragile
In retail, cyber risk is brand risk. A single exploitable weakness can expose customer payment data, disrupt point-of-sale systems, derail inventory management, or shut down critical sales periods. In an industry defined by margin pressure, seasonal peaks, and customer trust, even short disruptions can have outsized financial and reputational impact.
Attackers target retail because payment data is easily monetized and disruptions during peak sales periods create immediate financial and reputational pressure.
Where Traditional Security Falls Short in Retail
Most retailers are not short on security tools or alerts. They are short on prioritisation that aligns with business impact.
Vulnerability scanners, compliance assessments, and periodic penetration tests generate long lists of issues across POS systems, store networks, cloud platforms, and IoT devices. What they rarely answer are the questions retail operators care about most:
- Can this weakness be exploited to compromise payment data or disrupt sales?
- Does it enable fraud, inventory manipulation, or store downtime?
- What should be fixed first before peak sales periods?
- Did the remediation actually work—and will it still work after the next rollout or expansion?
Scapien's Approach: Exploit-Validated Risk for Retail Operations
Scapien is built to bring clarity where retail security programs struggle.
Instead of reporting theoretical exposure, Scapien uses human-led adversary testing to prove which weaknesses represent real attacker paths in retail environments—across POS systems, store networks, cloud platforms, and supporting infrastructure. Only issues that are demonstrably exploitable are elevated as risk.
Preventing Regression as Retail Systems Change
Retail environments change constantly. New stores open, POS systems are updated, handheld devices are deployed, promotions spike traffic, and regions are added. These changes routinely reintroduce exposure—often without visibility.
Scapien addresses this through its iPAS platform. Once an exploit path is remediated, it is codified into a safe, reusable Exploit Replay. These replays are executed on an approved cadence wherever the same conditions exist, continuously verifying that fixes remain effective.
Built for the Reality of Modern Retail
Scapien does not replace existing tools, IT teams, or remediation partners. It removes ambiguity.
By proving exploitability, prioritising risk by business impact, delivering prescriptive remediation, and continuously verifying closure, Scapien helps retailers reduce real exposure without slowing operations or compromising customer experience.
In retail, trust and availability are inseparable. Scapien is built to protect both.