Ecommerce penetration testing
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Why ecommerce cyber security is important
Protecting transactions,
accounts, and customer data
The UK ecommerce sector is forecast to have 62.1 million users in 2025, spending as much as £184bn in online stores. Year-on-year, ecommerce sales are growing as a percentage of total retail sales, and almost 90% of the UK population are now making purchases online. With a vast user base to target and large financial incentives at stake, the ecommerce market is a prime target for cyber attacks.
Ecommerce cyber security challenges
High traffic, fast changes,
and constant threats
User experience vs cyber security
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and strong passwords protects user accounts from the most basic cyber attacks, but ecommerce sites can struggle to implement these protections without losing customers to competitors with less hurdles. The lack of these controls frequently results in compromised user accounts and fraud, which harms the ecommerce brand reputation and customer trust. Trying to balance security and user experience is a minefield, and ecommerce businesses need to work with a cyber security company that can help them solve these challenges.
Supply chain security and
3rd-party integrations
As online shopping is becoming increasingly popular, ecommerce businesses are investing heavily in their digital capabilities to target new audiences. There are a growing number of ecommerce features expected by users, subscription services, and third-party integrations such as intelligent search, sizing tools, product configurators and payment processors. These applications process sensitive personal information, such as names, addresses, contact information and preferences.
Keeping up with rapid development
Ecommerce businesses are under pressure to maintain development velocity and deploy new features and improvements rapidly to keep up with competition. Whilst most mature ecommerce businesses have high performing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, review and testing is still critical to ensure quality and security, whilst being a painful bottleneck due to resource constraints and competing priorities.
Consumer education and fraud
For many ecommerce businesses, the burden of protecting users against cyber attacks is a difficult task. Password re-use, insecure devices and social engineering attacks all contribute to many consumers falling victim to cyber attacks. Whilst ecommerce businesses put in place as many security controls as possible, there are limitations when users cannot be expected to always follow best practices.
Why ecommerce penetration testing is a necessity
Find and fix weaknesses
before attackers do
Ecommerce businesses process vast quantities of sensitive information, which makes them a prime target for cyber attacks. Ecommerce data typically includes personal information (such as names, addresses, and contact details of customers), payment data (such as payment card details), loyalty programme information (such as user accounts, reward points and discount codes), order details and employee records. Most of this data can be accessed through web applications, 3rd party integrations and APIs exposed to the internet.
Performing an ecommerce penetration test of these applications and systems is important to reduce the likelihood of a successful cyber attack. With rigorous testing, ecommerce security leaders can ensure vulnerabilities are identified and fixed to protect sensitive information and critical business operations from attackers.
Why choose Sentrium for
ecommerce penetration testing?
Deep expertise in fast-moving,
high-risk environments
At Sentrium, we understand the challenges of ecommerce cyber security. With our expertise in ecommerce penetration testing, we help you identify and address weaknesses in your applications and environments before they are exploited.
Our approach to ecommerce application security goes beyond a typical penetration test. We have a deep understanding of your business challenges, and we are well positioned to advise on your security controls, third-party integrations, CI/CD and application security stack.
We recognise that the ecommerce industry operates in a complex environment, and security breaches can have a major impact. Our experienced team provide expert ecommerce penetration testing and support to help you gain confidence, maintain compliance and build customer trust.
Our ecommerce penetration testing services
CREST-approved
penetration testing services
Explore the core services we provide
for ecommerce companies:
Website penetration testing
Ecommerce businesses use custom applications to facilitate their customers needs, whether its online shopping, loyalty programmes, subscription services or back office functions. Our team use the comprehensive OWASP testing methodology, a range of professional tools and years of application security experience to provide assurance of your applications.
Cloud penetration testing
Many ecommerce applications, APIs and systems are deployed in cloud environments, which provides scaling and flexibility to reach global customers. Ecommerce services and platforms hosted in cloud environment present unique challenges for security, as sensitive customer, financial and operational information may be exposed to the public internet. We can assess the security of your cloud environments to ensure data and services are securely configured.
Mobile penetration testing
Ecommerce businesses often provide mobile applications to provide alternative ways for their customers to shop. Mobile applications provide a new dimension of cyber security considerations, and should be pentested to ensure stored data and connected services are protected.
Network penetration testing
Network and infrastructure pentesting assesses your servers, networking equipment and user devices for vulnerabilities. These systems may store or process sensitive personal or financial information, and are used by ecommerce businesses to support back-office processes, such as fulfilling customer orders, warehouse and stock management.
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penetration testing with Sentrium
Connect with our team of specialists to maintain compliance with regulations, build confidence and trust in your products and services, and protect your business from security breaches.