With a global presence of over 12,000 physical stores, the organization is also extremely focused on digital transformation with a successful multi-channel approach. In a classic IT model, organizations manage their security in a layered or siloed approach. Sensitive data flows between applications, the network layer, databases, file systems, and data center storage systems. Although the data is secured at each of these levels, there are inevitable security gaps between the different layers, as data moves around the infrastructure. A project manager for the organization’s CISO office, explains the issue: “Although within the layers all data was encrypted, if a privileged user account is compromised this could still cause a data...

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