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A password leaked in somebody else’s breach can become your problem at the login page. Credential stuffing bots test stolen username and password pairs against shopper accounts at scale. Each request can look like a legitimate login. The pattern gives the attack away. We identify suspicious patterns at the login endpoint and use behavioral bot detection, Web Controls and rate limits to block or slow the attack before it reaches the backend application. Commerce Infrastructure you can 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁.

Bot defense gets expensive when every request makes it to the application. Bot IP Shield checks incoming IPs against Webroot BrightCloud reputation data, refreshed every five minutes. Known malicious sources are denied at the proxy before the application spends resources on them. That clears out the obvious traffic early. Web Controls, rate limiting and behavioral defenses can focus on the harder calls. Commerce Infrastructure you can trust. #BotDefense #WebSecurity #Ecommerce

Regulated merchants have enough people deciding what they can sell, where they can ship and how they can advertise. Their infrastructure provider should help them operate through that complexity. We manage application delivery, cloud infrastructure, databases, security and scaling as one system. This means fewer handoffs when a carding attack starts, traffic spikes around a product launch or checkout instability puts revenue at risk. It also means AI grounded in the merchant’s catalog, policies and approved content. From firearms and accessories to cannabis, alcohol, tobacco and nicotine, we operate infrastructure built for the rules and pressures of the category. Click the link in our comments to see how we support regulated commerce.

The July Chai issue is here. This summer, Shopify gave vape and e-cigarette merchants a deadline to remove their products. Their storefronts, order history, customer data and integrations all lived on infrastructure Shopify controlled. This month we look at what that means for regulated commerce and why infrastructure ownership has become a business decision. Also brewing: • The AI Shopping Assistant can now understand the product page a shopper is viewing • Commerce Cloud infrastructure is opening to the mid-market at $499 per month • Adrian explains why your catalog may be invisible to Google UCP and OpenAI ACP Steep something strong and settle in.

The riskiest traffic on your storefront shows up at the cart and checkout. Application Shielding inspects every request in the traffic path and blocks application attacks before they reach the storefront. Because it runs on the same data plane as your CDN and Web Controls, security rules stay aligned with how traffic is delivered. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Commerce Infrastructure you can trust. #WAF #WebSecurity #Ecommerce

Your checkout can be under attack while your traffic dashboard looks completely normal. Carding attacks stay small and spread out. Bots test stolen card numbers a few at a time from rotating IP addresses, so the traffic can look like legitimate shoppers checking out. A volumetric defense may never see the attack. We detect the behavior behind the requests, using session-based signals and checkout-aware rules to stop card testing before it reaches your payment processor. Stop it before processor fees, declines and MID risk flags start stacking up. Commerce Infrastructure you can trust.

Personalization built on stale data is is like guessing. Adrian Luna breaks down the latency gap between application-layer CDPs and infrastructure-layer first-party data capture, and what changed when Famous Smoke Shop closed it. Settle in to our latest post (link below).

Building an audience by hand is slow. By the time the segment is ready, the intent is often gone. AI Segmentation builds audiences in real time from shopper behavior and predicted intent. It feeds on-site personalization, marketing campaigns, and paid media. Teams using it report an 80% reduction in manual segmentation work. Webscale customers see a 23% conversion lift. Activate high-intent shoppers while they are still shopping. Commerce AI you can trust. #AISegmentation #Personalization #Ecommerce

A regulated commerce store going dark costs more than lost revenue. Customers start looking elsewhere. Years of search rankings and backlinks become dead links. Recovering that ground can take far longer than the outage itself. Crimson Agility helps regulated merchants get back online quickly on a commerce platform that the merchant controls. We provide the managed infrastructure, performance, security, and commerce AI underneath it. Get back online. Keep control of the stack. https://lnkd.in/gq2jBDMx

Pour a fresh one and click open the latest Brew Ha Ha. The July 13th issue is here. Ambiguous questions now resolve against the item on screen. Product page context flows into the AI Shopping Assistant automatically, so "does this come in blue?" gets answered without a restart. Plus a Playground for testing flows before they hit shoppers and Adrian on why your products aren't showing up in AI search. Good to the last line.