E-Commerce Security: Protecting Your Online Store from Attack
An e-commerce site is permanently under attack. Credential stuffing bots attempt thousands of login attempts per hour. Scraping bots harvest pricing and inventory data. Payment fraud bots test stolen card numbers. And underneath all of this automated traffic, sophisticated attackers look for vulnerabilities in your platform that could enable card skimming or customer data theft. Effective e-commerce security requires defences at every layer — from the network to the application to the identity systems that protect customer accounts.
UK e-commerce sites experience an average of 2,400 bot attacks per day — the majority targeting customer accounts, card data, or pricing intelligence.
Core E-Commerce Security Controls
An effective e-commerce security stack includes: web application firewall (WAF — filters malicious HTTP traffic, blocks common web attack patterns including SQL injection, XSS, and credential stuffing); content delivery network with DDoS protection (absorbs volumetric DDoS attacks before they reach your origin infrastructure); bot management (distinguishes between legitimate customer traffic and malicious bots — protecting against account takeover, card testing, and price scraping); MFA for customer accounts (preventing account takeover through compromised passwords); and client-side protection (Content Security Policy and script integrity monitoring to detect Magecart-style injection attacks). For the back end, these controls are complemented by endpoint protection on e-commerce servers and network monitoring for data exfiltration.
Coro for Retail IT and E-Commerce Security
Kyanite Blue deploys Coro as our primary endpoint, email, and cloud application security platform for retail clients. Coro provides unified protection for retail IT environments — covering the head office endpoints from which e-commerce operations are managed, the email systems through which BEC attacks arrive, and the cloud applications (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Shopify, Salesforce) that retailers increasingly depend on. Coro's single-console management makes it practical for retail IT teams who typically have limited security resource — providing enterprise-grade protection without requiring dedicated security analysts. For retail clients with significant customer data held in cloud platforms, Coro's cloud application security module provides visibility and control over data access and sharing.
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