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Online retailer reduces business risk

Vectra AI Inc.

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Cybersecurity Fraud Detection
Services	Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	The Very Group, a leading digital retailer in the UK, has undergone a significant digital transformation, shifting from a catalog operation to a pureplay digital retailer. However, this transformation has introduced new risks. The company needed to protect its ecommerce platforms, maintain customer trust, and meet regulatory requirements like the European Union’s General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR). The Very Group has 1.3 million visitors a day and four million active customers, and its systems hold a wealth of information that needs to be protected. The company also wanted to ensure that its security and privacy practices were tightly aligned with GDPR and other mandates. Read More
About Customer	The Very Group is the second-largest pureplay digital retailer in the United Kingdom. It boasts £1.93 billion in annual sales and has 4 million active customers. The company's brands include digital department stores Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, as well as luxury fashion retailer VeryExclusive.co.uk. Over the last several years, The Very Group has transformed from a catalog operation to a pureplay digital retailer, with 69% of online sales via mobile devices. Read More
Solution	To automate threat hunting, The Very Group turned to the Cognito® network detection and response platform from Vectra®. Cognito is a security analyst in software that automates the labor-intensive work of threat hunting and shows where attackers are hiding and what they are doing. The highest-risk threats are instantly prioritized by Cognito, enabling The Very Group security operations center (SOC) to respond quickly to stop in-progress attacks. To identify signs of compromise across the enterprise, Cognito threat detection models continuously learn the behavioral norms of devices. Threats are automatically scored and correlated with compromised hosts, and specific threat behaviors are correlated across hosts to provide the SOC team with a narrative of developing attacks. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Fraud Detection

Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

The Very Group, a leading digital retailer in the UK, has undergone a significant digital transformation, shifting from a catalog operation to a pureplay digital retailer. However, this transformation has introduced new risks. The company needed to protect its ecommerce platforms, maintain customer trust, and meet regulatory requirements like the European Union’s General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR). The Very Group has 1.3 million visitors a day and four million active customers, and its systems hold a wealth of information that needs to be protected. The company also wanted to ensure that its security and privacy practices were tightly aligned with GDPR and other mandates.

About Customer

The Very Group is the second-largest pureplay digital retailer in the United Kingdom. It boasts £1.93 billion in annual sales and has 4 million active customers. The company's brands include digital department stores Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, as well as luxury fashion retailer VeryExclusive.co.uk. Over the last several years, The Very Group has transformed from a catalog operation to a pureplay digital retailer, with 69% of online sales via mobile devices.

Solution

To automate threat hunting, The Very Group turned to the Cognito® network detection and response platform from Vectra®. Cognito is a security analyst in software that automates the labor-intensive work of threat hunting and shows where attackers are hiding and what they are doing. The highest-risk threats are instantly prioritized by Cognito, enabling The Very Group security operations center (SOC) to respond quickly to stop in-progress attacks. To identify signs of compromise across the enterprise, Cognito threat detection models continuously learn the behavioral norms of devices. Threats are automatically scored and correlated with compromised hosts, and specific threat behaviors are correlated across hosts to provide the SOC team with a narrative of developing attacks.

Impact #1	Strong security is a critical enabler, protecting £1.93 billion in revenue
Impact #2	Quickly identify the highest-risk threats in e-commerce sites, corporate systems in the cloud and private data centers
Impact #3	The in-house security team is more efficient with automated threat hunting

Impact #1

Strong security is a critical enabler, protecting £1.93 billion in revenue

Impact #2

Quickly identify the highest-risk threats in e-commerce sites, corporate systems in the cloud and private data centers

Impact #3

The in-house security team is more efficient with automated threat hunting

Benefit #1	69% of online sales via mobile devices
Benefit #2	1.3 million visitors a day and four million active customers

Benefit #1

69% of online sales via mobile devices

Benefit #2

1.3 million visitors a day and four million active customers

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Online retailer reduces business risk

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