1 A fast-growing grocery store co-op—which provides back-office services to hundreds of member stores—goes to great lengths to prevent unauthorized access to the customer information in its systems. “Customers are the grocers’ most important asset,” the co-op’s CIO says. “When they walk into a store and provide information about themselves, the store needs to ensure that information is not used for any purpose other than the customer intended. It is our responsibility to keep our member stores’ customer data safe, and to ensure it is not shared with anybody.” New Headquarters Presents Opportunity To Upgrade Security When the co-op moved its headquarters to a larger office space, its IT team worked with the IT solution provider Vandis Inc. to reevaluate the topology of the entire c

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