Retail
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OUR WHY
Ares for Retail
Autonomous offensive security for the storefront that never closes.
Retail runs on APIs now — every cart, every checkout, every loyalty redemption, every buy-online-pickup-in-store handoff, every coupon stack, every gift card balance check. The storefront is a thin layer of glass over a sprawl of backend services, third-party integrations, and partner endpoints, and adversaries have built an entire economy around the seams. Scattered Spider walked into the UK's biggest names and turned holiday quarters into incident reports. Magecart-style skimmers are still siphoning card data from checkout pages most security teams haven't inventoried. Credential-stuffing crews drain loyalty accounts at industrial scale because, dollar for dollar, the rewards balance is now more liquid than the credit card behind it. Meanwhile your code freeze starts in October, your annual pentest happened in March, and PCI DSS 4.0 just made "we tested it last year" insufficient as a control. Ares closes that gap — autonomously, continuously, and through every peak season your business depends on.
The Threat Surface
The attack surface behind every checkout, every login, every loyalty redemption.
The modern retail stack is a federation of systems no single team owns end-to-end. The e-commerce platform exposes hundreds of APIs — cart, checkout, pricing, inventory, promotions — and that's before headless and composable architectures multiply the surface by an order of magnitude with shadow endpoints nobody documented. Loyalty and rewards programs sit on their own auth stack with their own session model, often weaker than the storefront's, and they carry the kind of stored value that doesn't require a card-present transaction to monetize. Gift card platforms expose balance-check and redemption endpoints that get hammered by automation every hour of every day. BOPIS, curbside, and ship-from-store APIs cross trust boundaries between digital and physical operations. POS systems integrate with everything. Marketplace seller portals carry deep entitlements behind authentication that wasn't designed for adversarial scrutiny. Mobile shopping apps run on every device your customers own. And the third-party JavaScript on your payment pages is a supply chain you didn't build, can't fully see, and are now explicitly responsible for under PCI DSS 4.0. No annual assessment can keep pace with that. Ares can.
The Ares Platform
Autonomous offensive security, purpose-built for always-on commerce.
Ares deploys a coordinated swarm of AI agents against your APIs, web applications, and mobile apps. Each agent is purpose-built — for reconnaissance, exploit synthesis, kill-chain execution, and validation — and they work together the way a real adversary would. Our API agents enumerate and test the endpoints behind your checkout, cart, pricing, loyalty, gift card, and fulfillment systems, including the shadow APIs that headless architectures generate faster than anyone documents, with full coverage of the OWASP API Security Top 10 and the chained business-logic attacks that scanners cannot see: refund abuse, promo stacking, gift card draining, price manipulation, inventory hoarding. Our web agents probe authentication and session handling across storefronts and loyalty portals, surfacing the broken authorization and weak session logic that credential-stuffing operators exploit at scale. Our mobile agents test iOS and Android shopping apps end-to-end. And every test runs production-safely, with severity-tiered findings, operator attribution, and full evidentiary chains — so your team can keep Ares running through code freeze, through peak, through every weekend that used to be a security blind spot.
The Outcomes
Outcomes that matter to retail security leaders.
Ares is built to move the metrics that show up on your board deck and in your post-incident reviews, not the ones that decorate a dashboard. It protects brand trust by closing the API and business-logic flaws that turn a quiet Tuesday into a breach disclosure. It defends peak season with continuous coverage that doesn't go dark during code freeze — exactly when adversaries know your change window is closed and your detection is conservative. It eliminates account-takeover exposure on the loyalty programs that now carry more liquid value than the cards behind them. It surfaces the refund, promo, and gift-card business-logic flaws that fraud teams see in the aftermath and security teams never see at all. It hardens the third-party-script and client-side attack surface that PCI DSS 4.0 now holds you accountable for, and it gives you audit-grade evidence of continuous offensive testing — replacing point-in-time pentest snapshots with a defensible, always-on record across PCI DSS 4.0, state privacy regimes, and SEC disclosure obligations. Ares was built by operators who have spent decades on the other side of this work, breaching the APIs behind payments, banking, and connected commerce — research cited on Capitol Hill, presented from the DEFCON stage, and used to brief the institutions adversaries target most. That experience is encoded in every agent. When Ares tests your environment, it tests it the way the most patient, most resourced adversary would. The difference is that this time, the report comes to you.
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