The Anatomy of a Retail Exposure Incident

Retail environments move fast, change constantly, and rarely sit still long enough to get a full picture of what's exposed.

Thousands of stores, distributed infrastructure, third-party vendors, customer-facing systems: it's all connected, and all online. Small gaps in visibility can quietly turn into high-impact incidents before anyone realizes how the pieces connected.

In this session, Brinqa and VulnCheck walk through two real-world retail exposure incidents to show how retail exposure builds, where it accelerates, and what earlier visibility actually changes.

What we'll cover:

• Scenario 1: A large-scale e-commerce checkout compromise, and how patch lag across distributed commerce environments created the window
• Scenario 2: A managed file transfer exploitation, and how third-party trust relationships amplified blast radius
• Pattern recognition: What both incidents have in common, and what it means for your exposure management program

What you'll walk away with:

• A clearer picture of how retail exposure escalates across distributed, connected systems
• Practical framing for reassessing urgency when exploit activity increases
• Insight into where ownership fragmentation and connectivity create hidden risk

30 minutes. Two scenarios. No vendor pitch. Just the work.