Your checkout is your attack surface. Know what's exposed.
FortWatch scans your storefront, payment pages, and admin panels with 11 automated scanners. Find exposed endpoints, weak SSL, and CVEs before attackers find your customers' data.
Built for Online Retailers
PCI Compliance Evidence
Run SSL/TLS checks, security header audits, and CVE scans against your payment infrastructure. Export results as evidence for PCI-DSS assessments.
Checkout Flow Scanning
Nuclei CVE scans and security header checks on your checkout pages, cart endpoints, and payment callbacks. Catch vulnerabilities where the money moves.
Exposed Admin Panel Detection
Sensitive file detection finds publicly accessible admin panels, backup files, and config endpoints that give attackers a shortcut into your store.
Subdomain and Brand Monitoring
Detect subdomain takeover risks on staging and promo sites. Brand monitoring catches phishing domains impersonating your store before customers get scammed.
Cloud Storage Exposure
Scan for misconfigured S3 buckets, Azure blobs, and GCP storage where product images, customer exports, or database backups may be publicly accessible.
AI-Prioritized Remediation
AI ranks every finding by real-world exploitability so your team fixes the vulnerabilities that actually threaten customer data first. No security team required.
Secure Your Store in Four Steps
Add Your Domains
Enter your storefront, admin, and API domains. Setup takes under two minutes.
Run 11 Scanners
CVE detection, port scanning, SSL checks, sensitive file discovery, and more run automatically.
Fix What Matters
AI prioritization surfaces the critical issues. Guided remediation tells you exactly what to do.
Stay Protected
Continuous scanning catches new vulnerabilities as your store evolves. Compliance evidence stays current.
External Attack Surface for Online Retail and E-commerce
E-commerce stores run on a sprawl of internet-facing systems that attackers map constantly: the storefront itself (Magento/Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce/WordPress, Shopify, BigCommerce, or custom stacks), the admin and merchant back-office panels, payment and checkout pages, a long tail of subdomains (staging, promo microsites, regional stores, dev environments), and cloud storage holding product images, catalog data, and exported customer or order files. Every plugin, theme, and third-party tag widens that surface. Platform CVEs are exploited at scale and fast — Adobe Commerce/Magento alone saw CosmicSting (CVE-2024-34102) reach roughly three-quarters of installs and the 2025 SessionReaper flaw (CVE-2025-54236) enable account takeover and remote code execution — so an unpatched store is a public, machine-discoverable target.
The signature e-commerce threat is client-side card skimming (Magecart / formjacking): attackers inject malicious JavaScript into checkout and payment pages, often through a compromised admin login, a vulnerable plugin, or a hijacked third-party script, then quietly exfiltrate card numbers as shoppers type them. The entry points are usually external and visible: an admin or phpMyAdmin panel exposed to the whole internet, a leaked .env or database backup, expired or weak TLS on the checkout host, a permissive S3/GCS bucket, or a deprovisioned promo subdomain still pointing at a SaaS that anyone can claim. Brand-impersonation domains and lookalike storefronts compound the risk, harvesting credentials and orders under your name.
FortWatch monitors that external footprint continuously: open ports and exposed admin/database services, known CVEs and missing hardening on the storefront and checkout hosts, TLS/cipher and certificate posture on payment domains, DNS hygiene (SPF/DKIM/DMARC and dangling records), exposed sensitive files and backups, subdomain-takeover risk, public cloud buckets, and lookalike domains impersonating your brand. Being honest about scope: external scanning sees what an attacker on the internet can see. It will flag an exposed admin panel, a vulnerable Magento version, or a misconfigured bucket, but it does not run inside your checkout to inspect every executing script in real time, replace a PCI-mandated client-side tamper-detection control, or replicate a full manual pentest. It shrinks and watches the attack surface that precedes most skimming incidents.
Compliance this supports
How continuous external scanning maps to the frameworks teams in this sector report against.
External scanning supports the quarterly external vulnerability-scan expectation (Req 11.3.2) and surfaces the exposed payment-host, TLS, and infrastructure gaps that feed e-skimming — a complement to, not a replacement for, the client-side script-integrity controls in 6.4.3 and 11.6.1.
A mid-sized retailer runs Adobe Commerce and, after a holiday-season push, spins up a promo microsite on a new subdomain plus a staging copy of the store — neither tracked by the small dev team. The staging host still serves the admin panel to the open internet and is two minor versions behind on patching. An attacker scanning the brand's domains finds the exposed admin, exploits a known Magento CVE to authenticate, and injects a skimmer into the shared checkout template. Card data quietly flows to an attacker-controlled domain for weeks until a payment processor flags a common point of purchase. With FortWatch, the staging subdomain surfaces the day it goes live: a critical finding for the internet-exposed admin panel, a high finding for the outdated, CVE-affected Magento version, and AI-written remediation telling the team to restrict admin access and patch — closing the door before any script ever reaches the checkout page."
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