Case Study: McColl’s Retail Group plc achieves PCI compliance and faster threat detection with LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform

McColl’s Retail Group remains PCI compliant with the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform

McColl’s Retail Group is a British convenience and newsagent operator with around 1,600 stores and 22,000 employees. As customers shifted from cash to card payments, McColl’s became a level-one card merchant and faced strict PCI requirements—particularly the need for centralised, secure logging across a large estate of EPOS tills and very high transaction volumes—while lacking cost-effective retail-focused security options.

McColl’s selected LogRhythm’s NextGen SIEM after a competitive shortlist; LogRhythm provided a bespoke commercial approach plus strong file integrity monitoring and traceability, and enabled personalised alerts to reduce noise. The solution delivered centralised logging (now over 13.5 million events/day), helped McColl’s achieve and maintain PCI compliance since 2013, reduced mean time to detect and respond, and provided forensic-ready data and greater operational confidence.

McColl’s Retail Group plc

Peter Gore

Development & Compliance Manager