RETAIL SECURITY

Runtime security for retail.

Retail runs on customer trust and payment data. ByteHide detects attacks, blocks exploits, and proves what's exploitable from inside your live code, so you protect customer data and stay ready for PCI-DSS.

Free to start. No credit card, no sales call.
ByteHide platform dashboard showing retail application runtime telemetry and protected services.

Trusted by retail and ecommerce teams

Telefónica
Grupo Salinas
Grupo Upax
Elektra

WHY RETAIL

Why retail applications need runtime security

Retail applications handle payment data and customer PII at scale, and they run across ecommerce sites, mobile apps, and POS systems you don't fully control. That combination opens two blind spots traditional security never closes.

  • Trusted
    Backoffice system
    Unknown
    Customer device

    Payment data, exposed across every channel

    Ecommerce sites, mobile apps, and POS software run across web, customer devices, and stores. Once an app leaves your pipeline, attackers can tamper with it or abuse it in environments you don't control. The attack happens, and nothing tells you.

  • Findings
    2,341 found7 reachable
    • CVE-2026-1847
      not reachable
    • CVE-2026-0912
      Reachable
    • CVE-2025-9931
      not reachable
    • CVE-2025-8420
      not reachable
    • CVE-2025-7755
      Reachable
    • CVE-2025-6011
      not reachable

    Thousands of CVEs, no signal

    Your scanners flag thousands of vulnerabilities and none of them tell you which are reachable in a system that processes payments. Retail security teams, stretched across many channels, burn weeks chasing findings that were never exploitable.

  • checkout.ts
    SAST · SCAByteHide
    Code & Ship
    ship
    • GET/cart
    • GET/catalog
    • POST/checkout
    • PUT/orders
    Store App and API
    Runtime Protection
    Runtime Intelligence
    Exploit blocked
    just now
    ReachableCVE-2026-0912
    fix
    Evidence logged
    PCI-DSS · SOC 2

    ByteHide

    Real attacks, real code, where payments happen

    ByteHide is a platform built around runtime security. It does not compete with the scanner you already run. It does that work too, then validates every finding against what actually executes in production. SAST and SCA find the candidates. Runtime proves which ones are real, blocks the exploits, and logs the evidence your auditors need.

THE NUMBERS

The threat is accelerating

Retail is a top target for attackers who follow the money and the data, and the numbers from 2026 keep climbing.

  • +15%

    Annual retail security incidents rose from 725 to 837 in a single year, with confirmed breaches up from 369 to 419.

    RH-ISAC / Shopify 2026

  • #7

    Retail now ranks as the seventh most targeted industry by incident count.

    RH-ISAC 2026

  • #1 data

    Customer PII is among the most commonly compromised record types across all breaches.

    RH-ISAC 2026

HOW BYTEHIDE PROTECTS RETAIL

One engine. Two contexts.

Built for how retail software is built today

Retail development has changed. Your applications now embed AI, and your team now builds with AI. ByteHide secures both sides of that shift.

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Your retail application at runtime

Your ecommerce platforms, mobile apps, and payment APIs run protected from inside the live code. When your application uses AI for recommendations, support, or checkout, ByteHide secures those interactions in real time. This is application security, runtime-first.

HTTP Request
Mobile App
Internal Service
3rd-party Library
App boundary
SQL Query
Command Exec
File Access
Network Call
Auth Check
Deserialization
Prompt Input
LLM Call
Model Response
Database
Filesystem
Internal APIs
Secrets
User Data
LLM

One platform, from the developer's machine to production.

Runtime at the core, scanning that makes it sharper.

WHAT YOU GAIN

What retail teams gain with ByteHide

Security is not a cost center for retail. It is what keeps customers buying, payments flowing, and audits on track.

  • 01

    Protect customer trust

    A breach of payment data is a breach of customer trust. ByteHide gives you proof your checkout and customer data are defended, not just policies that say they should be.

    Cardholder Attestation

    Q2 2026 — Runtime evidence

    • PCI-DSS application controls58 / 58
    • Cardholder data access events12,447
    • Runtime telemetry (24h)live
    • GDPR control mappingcurrent
    Signed by ByteHide Runtime2026-05-23 09:14
  • 02

    Stay continuously PCI-DSS-ready

    Compliance evidence is generated as you build, not scrambled together before each audit. Your roadmap never stops for cardholder data reviews.

    Release velocity

    ship

    Audit checkpoints

    PCI-DSSISO 27001GDPRSOC 2audit-ready
    Sprint 142 · shipped & audit-ready
  • 03

    Ship retail features faster

    Runtime tells your team which risks are real, so engineers fix what matters and move on. Security keeps pace with peak-season release cycles.

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    Alerts filtered

    2,341
    noise
    7
    real
    Auto-fix vulnerability
ByteHide retail compliance report, protected app, verifications, and weekly summary.
PCI-DSS
GDPR
SOC 2
ISO 27001
PCI-DSS
GDPR
SOC 2
ISO 27001
PCI-DSS
GDPR
SOC 2
ISO 27001
PCI-DSS
GDPR
SOC 2
ISO 27001

COMPLIANCE

Built for PCI-DSS compliance

Retail runs under PCI-DSS, and a breach of payment data is measured in fines and lost customers. ByteHide turns runtime into compliance evidence, so your team knows where it stands and can prove it.

Share reports with your team, your acquirers, or your auditors in a few clicks. Cut the friction of every PCI-DSS review.
1.PCI-DSS evidence for cardholder data and payment flows.
2.Audit trails for every access to customer data.
3.GDPR application-layer evidence.
4.Runtime detection and response logs.
5.AI interaction monitoring.
6.Real-time alerts on policy violations.

THE PLATFORM

Application security testing,
end to end

The platform around your runtime engine. SAST, secrets, shielding, and audit, unified and retail-ready.

Free tier

Code

SAST, SCA, and AI autofix, prioritized by runtime reachability. Your scanner finds the candidates. Runtime tells you which ones reach a real payment flow.

  • Static analysis with every finding validated against runtime reachability.
  • Software composition analysis with CVE prioritization based on what executes.
  • AI-assisted autofix for the findings that actually matter.
ByteHide Code dashboard
Free tier

Vault

Secrets management for the payment gateways, ecommerce integrations, and POS keys your retail applications depend on. Encrypted, rotated, and access-logged.

ByteHide Vault dashboard
  • Centralized vault for payment-gateway keys and HSM-backed secrets.
  • Access policies per environment and per store, with full audit logs.
  • Automated rotation and revocation when something leaks.

Shield

Code obfuscation and anti-tamper for the customer-facing apps and POS software you ship beyond your own infrastructure. Protect what runs in environments you don't control.

ByteHide Shield obfuscation visual
  • Code obfuscation for ecommerce, mobile commerce, and POS apps.
  • Anti-tamper, jailbreak and root detection at runtime.
  • Integrity checks across iOS and Android once the app ships.

Audit

Cross-stack correlation, SIEM integration, and compliance reporting. Every alert logged with the trail your auditors expect.

  • Correlation across code findings, vault events and runtime telemetry.
  • SIEM integrations for SOC workflows out of the box.
  • Compliance reporting mapped to PCI-DSS, GDPR, and SOC 2 controls.
ByteHide Audit dashboard

CUSTOMER STORY

How a retailer moved from legacy tools to runtime security

A retailer running ecommerce and mobile applications came to ByteHide with a familiar problem. Their security stack was a set of older tools that took heavy configuration to maintain and still left gaps. Static analysis ran, but every finding landed on developers with no way to know which ones mattered. And in production, where payments were processed, they had little real visibility.

They started with runtime. ByteHide gave their team a live dashboard of what was happening inside their running applications, and within that view they saw what their previous tools had missed: real exploitation attempts, including zero-day activity their scanners had never flagged. ByteHide did not just surface those attacks. It blocked them in production, in real time.

From there, the change went deeper. ByteHide began feeding what runtime observed back into code analysis, so the same zero-day intelligence reached developers as concrete fixes. The retailer replaced its legacy code analysis with ByteHide's, and for the first time their developers were fixing the vulnerabilities that runtime proved were real.

The result was not one metric. It was a different way of working: faster detection, sharper prioritization, real-time protection where payments happen, and a single platform instead of a stack of disconnected tools. One place for their team, their applications, and their compliance evidence.

WHY BYTEHIDE

Why retail teams choose ByteHide

Most retail security stacks are a pile of tools that scan, alert, and never agree. ByteHide is built differently.

Retail security questions, answered

How does ByteHide help retail apps with PCI-DSS compliance?
ByteHide generates runtime evidence for the application-layer controls PCI-DSS requires, with audit trails for cardholder data and payment flows. It helps your team prepare for audits and prove compliance. It does not replace your certification process.
Can ByteHide protect ecommerce and POS applications?
Yes. Ecommerce sites, mobile apps, and POS software run across web, customer devices, and stores. ByteHide adds code obfuscation, anti-tamper, and runtime protection that defend the app once it ships.
Does ByteHide replace my existing SAST or SCA scanner?
It can. ByteHide includes SAST and SCA, and validates every finding against runtime reachability. If you already run a scanner, ByteHide works alongside it and tells you which findings are actually exploitable in a system that processes payments.
How does ByteHide secure AI features inside retail applications?
When your application uses AI for recommendations, support, or checkout, ByteHide monitors those interactions at runtime and detects prompt injection and abuse, the same engine that protects the rest of your code.
Does ByteHide slow down retail development cycles?
No. ByteHide runs in-process with no proxies or infrastructure changes, and runtime tells your team which risks are real, so engineers fix what matters instead of triaging noise.
How does ByteHide help with breach detection and incident reporting?
ByteHide detects and blocks exploitation attempts in production in real time, and logs every event with the trail your team needs for breach notification and incident review.
10,000+ developers protect their apps with ByteHide

Secure your retail stack
from code to production

Runtime security for retail applications, the AI inside them, and the way your team builds them.

ByteHide runtime dashboard showing live threat monitoring and protection metrics