Best Practice Guide Retail

Make Use of Adversary Infrastructure to Strengthen Retail Storefronts

It’s understood that the threat landscape is growing and evolving, though certain trends may be quickening relative to earlier times. With adoption of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, more convincing phishing lures, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and more, there are many opportunities for bad actors to craft new ways to bypass detection. The retail sector is in no way immune to these threats; they manifest year-round but seem to bloom during each year’s busy holiday shopping season.

In this Best Practices Guide, we offer insights into the cyber threats facing the retail sector, what the landscape looks like for defenders, and how security teams are making
effective use of adversary infrastructure analysis to gain an edge.

In this guide, readers will learn about:

• The current threat landscape
• Successes and limitations of common defensive strategies
• The value of DNS and DNS-adjacent data in compliance with complex regulations and in adversary analysis, and why DomainTools is a leader in this space
• How security teams are solving important security problems with DomainTools