The Retail Security Overhaul: Powered by Dataminr for Cyber Defense

A major U.S. retailer with more than 94,000 employees needed to transform fragmented, reactive security operations into a unified, intelligence-led defense. By deploying Dataminr for Cyber Defense, they moved from noise and manual overhead to clarity, speed, and measurable outcomes.

The Challenge

The security team was losing ground — not to a single threat, but to the weight of their own workflows. Analysts toggled constantly between siloed tools — SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and more — manually processing alerts with little time left for actual analysis. The result was excessive noise, slow investigations, mounting analyst fatigue, and dangerous blind spots in threat visibility. Prioritization was guesswork, and collaboration suffered. The team needed infrastructure capable of keeping pace with the threat landscape, not just reacting to it.

The Solution

The retailer partnered with ThreatConnect, now a part of Dataminr, to unify threat intelligence, risk management, and security operations under a single, coherent architecture. Through Agentic TI Ops — combining the Dataminr Agentic Threat Intelligence Platform with Dataminr Investigation Insights — the team automated intelligence collection, eliminated repetitive manual tasks, and streamlined workflows end to end.

Analysts no longer had to chase context across tools; relevant, real-time intelligence surfaced directly within their existing workflows. AI-powered threat scoring and enrichment ensured that every signal was assessed, prioritized, and actionable before it reached human hands.

The Outcome

The results were immediate and durable. The retailer achieved a 25% reduction in false positives, faster incident response times, and significantly more effective investigations. Analyst fatigue dropped as the burden of manual processing lifted. Existing security tools performed better — not because they changed, but because they were finally working with clean, enriched intelligence. Dataminr for Cyber Defense became foundational infrastructure for the retailer’s cybersecurity strategy, enabling smarter, faster, and more informed decisions at every layer of the operation.