How an Enterprise Retailer Saved 600+ Hours with Unified Exposure Management

Case Study Summary

A North American enterprise retailer adopted unified exposure management to bring structure to fragmented vulnerability and asset data, prioritize cyber risk based on real business impact, and eliminate more than 600 hours of manual security work.

The Challenge of Managing Cyber Risk Across Expanding Retail Environments

As modern retail environments scale, cybersecurity tends to get more complex. With expanding digital and physical environments comes a larger attack surface, and exponentially more data for security teams to manage. Maintaining cyber resilience requires more than visibility – it requires clarity about what truly puts operations at risk.

A leading enterprise retailer, operating hundreds of stores alongside a high-traffic e-commerce platform, knew this challenge well. Between point-of-sale systems, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing applications, understanding where real risk lived had become harder than it should be.

By adopting a unified exposure management approach with Brinqa, this retailer was able to cut through that complexity. As a result, they saved more than 600 hours while gaining clearer, more actionable visibility into cyber risk.

Why Retail Cybersecurity Requires Unified Exposure Management

Retail organizations operate in some of the most complex security environments today. Exposure data flows in from point-of-sale systems, cloud services, third-party integrations, customer data platforms, and internal applications – often across disconnected tools.

Traditional vulnerability management solutions tend to operate in silos. That leaves security teams manually stitching together data, trying to determine what matters most without enough business context to guide decisions.

Unified exposure management helps change that dynamic. By consolidating exposure data into a single, trusted view, teams can understand which issues truly put critical business operations at risk, and which ones can wait.

The Retailer’s Cybersecurity Challenge

Before implementing unified exposure management, this retailer faced challenges that will feel familiar to many security teams:

• Security data scattered across multiple tools
• Manual correlation of vulnerabilities and assets
• Limited context for prioritizing risk
• Time-consuming executive and stakeholder reporting
• No centralized view of enterprise-wide cyber exposure

Security analysts spent hours exporting data, reconciling spreadsheets, and building custom scripts just to answer basic questions. That effort slowed remediation, drained time, and pulled focus away from reducing meaningful risk.

Implementing a Unified Exposure Management Strategy

Centralizing exposure data gave the retailer a clearer, calmer way to manage cyber risk, without adding more work or noise.

Automated Data Correlation and Asset Resolution

The platform automatically normalized and deduplicated data from multiple security tools, reducing manual work and improving confidence in the results.

Context-Aware Risk Scoring

Risk prioritization incorporated exploitability, asset criticality, threat intelligence, and compliance relevance. This helped teams focus on what posed the greatest business impact, not just the loudest alerts.

Streamlined Remediation Workflows

Integrated ticketing and SLA tracking created clearer ownership and faster follow-through, helping teams move from insight to action with less friction.

Real-Time Dashboards and Reporting

Dynamic dashboards replaced static, manually built reports, giving security leaders near real-time visibility into exposure and remediation progress.

Measurable Results and Business Impact

The shift to unified exposure management delivered tangible improvements across efficiency, visibility, and risk reduction:

• More than 600 hours saved by eliminating manual data work
• Exposure discovery and reporting reduced from days to near real-time
• A single, trusted view of enterprise exposure
• Risk prioritization aligned with business impact
• Faster remediation and clearer accountability
• Stronger returns on existing security tool investments

These outcomes allowed the security team to spend less time managing data and more time reducing meaningful risk – supporting a more proactive security approach instead of constant reaction.

What This Case Study Means for Retail Enterprises

For many retail organizations, this shift reflects a broader move toward continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) as a practical framework for proactive, business-aligned security.

For retail organizations facing growing attack surfaces and constant change, this case study underscores a common reality: siloed security programs don’t scale well.

Unified exposure management helps retailers move beyond reactive vulnerability tracking toward proactive, business-aligned risk management – strengthening cyber resilience while supporting day-to-day operations.

Transforming Cybersecurity Operations for Large Retail Enterprises

This case study shows how unified exposure management can reshape cyber resilience operations at scale. By consolidating data, applying business context, and automating workflows, organizations can reduce operational burden while strengthening their security posture.

For retailers looking to improve visibility, accelerate remediation, and prove measurable ROI from their security investments, unified exposure management represents a practical evolution in how cyber risk is managed.

Ready to See Unified Exposure Management in Action?

If fragmented security data, limited risk context, or time-consuming manual workflows sound familiar, unified exposure management can help teams move from reactive vulnerability tracking to proactive, business-aligned cyber risk management.

Meet with a Brinqa expert to see how unified exposure management helps large retail enterprises bring order to exposure data, focus on what matters most, and reduce risk across complex retail environments.

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