Santa Clara, Calif. — Cequence, a pioneer in API security and bot management, has been selected by Hibbett, a leading athletic-inspired fashion retailer, to enhance Hibbett’s automated threat detection capabilities and enable comprehensive inventory management, compliance and API protection across all online and in-store brands.
Like many retailers, Hibbett operates in a hybrid IT environment, juggling both on-premises and cloud-based systems for its retail and online operations. After critical SaaS migration to Oracle Cloud and Azure Active Directory, the company prioritized robust API security to ensure secure and efficient API communication.
This migration triggered a surge in API usage, highlighting the need for greater visibility to mitigate data loss, theft, fraud and potential business disruptions. Maintaining business continuity was paramount. That is why Hibbett sought a security solution that could quickly discover and protect all internal and external APIs and enable the creation of custom policies for mitigating and blocking bot attacks without disrupting revenue streams or existing business partnerships. This led Hibbett to Cequence’s Unified API Protection (UAP) platform, which guaranteed critical services were protected before deployment, enabling Hibbett to continue to grow in the highly competitive retail market.
“Cequence has allowed us to transform our IT from being a cost center, to a strategic arm of the organization that is contributing to our bottom line,” says Lee Morris, senior director of security and infrastructure architecture at Hibbett. “With the Unified API Protection platform we are now creating efficiencies in the processes that we couldn’t provide with the infrastructure and the systems we had in place. The Cequence UAP platform is one of the key technologies that is enabling our IT security team to become a much larger contributor to our company’s success.”
“APIs are the lifeblood of modern retail and e-commerce. Every action you take online, from adding an item to your cart to swiping your card at checkout, relies on APIs to seamlessly transmit data in the background. These interactions wouldn’t be possible without robust and secure API security,” says Ameya Talwalkar, CEO of Cequence. “Securing APIs is critical, but cookie-cutter solutions fail. Hibbett needed a customizable approach to fit their unique needs, and that’s what we delivered.”
Cequence, a pioneer in API security and bot management, is the only solution that delivers Unified API Protection (UAP), uniting discovery, compliance and protection across all internal and external APIs to defend against attacks, targeted abuse and fraud. The flexible deployment model supports SaaS, on-premises and hybrid installations. For more information, visit www.cequence.ai.
Hibbett, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is a leading athletic-inspired fashion retailer with 1,169 Hibbett, City Gear and Sports Additions specialty stores located in 36 states nationwide as of May 4, 2024. For more information, visit www.hibbett.com.
SOURCE: Cequence Security