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Identity & Access Management for Retail Businesses

The modern merchant is a master of data management. From point-of-sale to back-office, the amount of data collected is exploding, and so is the number of people who want to access it. Customers, partners, vendors, and employees all have legitimate reasons to read and modify data.

The challenge is making sure that users are who they say they are, and that they can only access the data necessary to perform their tasks once inside. This requires more than password policies — it requires identity and access management.

Modern retail businesses need a strategy for securing identity and access. Whether a retail business locates its assets in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment, its Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution needs to be seamless, secure, and scalable. Optimal IdM helps merchants do business safely in the digital marketplace.

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Why Optimal IdM Is Important for the Retail Industry

As retail businesses generate and store more data, they face numerous challenges, ranging from cybersecurity breaches to delayed efficiency. Optimal IdM’s retail identity management solutions help companies in the retail industry manage and safeguard their data. These solutions can be customized to your business’s specific needs and goals so you get the exact services necessary.

Explore a few examples of the benefits of IAM solutions.

1. Improve Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity issues are on the rise, especially as more aspects of business turn digital. These problems can stem from various causes, ranging from targeted cyberattacks to human error. In the aftermath of a data breach or leak, companies may experience reputational damage, operational disruptions, and lost revenue.

By harnessing the power of The OptimalCloud, retail businesses can better protect their data and boost their cybersecurity. With features like two-factor authentication and greater control over who can access data and when, companies can take meaningful steps toward protecting their data from cyberattacks.

2. Minimize Delays

Solutions lacking IAM can often result in delays, mainly due to human error and users not being able to access the right data when they need it. When users can locate the data they require quickly and from anywhere, retail businesses can streamline processes, such as fulfilling customer orders, and avoid costly delays. Plus, when data is better safeguarded due to IAM, the probability of expensive delays due to cybersecurity issues decreases.

3. Boost Efficiency

Without IAM, systems lack single sign-on (SSO) and other helpful features that contribute to a positive user experience. Waiting for password resets and other assistance from IT results in business-wide inefficiencies.

By investing in IAM solutions via The OptimalCloud, retail businesses can boost overall efficiency. Authenticate vendor access and perform other crucial tasks quickly and without error with the help of IAM solutions.

Improve Productivity and Ease IT Costs With Single Sign-On

SSO lets users log into multiple systems with one set of credentials. For users, this translates into greater productivity and freedom from the frustration of forgetting passwords. They don’t have to call the help desk for password resets frequently, so IT costs are reduced, and they don’t need to write down or share passwords, so security is improved. Learn more

Improve Security and Manage Vendor Access With Multi-Factor Authentication and Federated Identity

Vendors and employees of subsidiaries and partners also need access to a retail organization’s systems. Federated identity lets a user log into systems across multiple enterprises with a single set of credentials. This feature makes it easier to ensure secure, efficient vendor access to streamline processes and ultimately avoid delays.

Optimal IdM’s Federated Identity solution supports two-factor authentication and authorization in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment.

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Authenticate Users in Any Location With Multi-Forest Active Directory

Multi-Forest Active Directory gives organizations a single real-time view of identity data from any data store. Merchants can authenticate users, whether they’re inside their organizations, at their vendors, or among their online customers.

Optimal IdM’s Multi-Forest Active Directory IAM solution for retail businesses is driven by our Virtual Identity Server (VIS). VIS simplifies identity management and gives greater control over which accounts can connect, bind, and search the LDAP directory.

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Authenticate Users In Any Location with Multi-Forest Active Directory

Gain Control & Visibility Unto User Activities with User Management & Customer Entitlements

Gain Control and Visibility Into User Activities With User Management and Customer Entitlements

The OptimalCloud gives administrators a complete user management system that includes a custom entitlements engine and self-service administration capabilities, as well as the ability to log user activities and monitor accounts. A robust Delegated Administrative Identity Management system grants user privileges across multiple organizations.

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Seamlessly Manage Users Across Thousands of Organizations With Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) provide seamless, secure access to thousands of applications through a single sign-on. Optimal IdM’s AFDS is integrated with our Virtual Identity Server (VIS) and enables multi-factor authentication and authorization from any data store.

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Seamlessly Manage Users Across Thousands of Organizations with Active Directory Federation Services

Increase Business Agility With LDAP Migrations

Merchants need to be agile today, but many are held back by technology that is no longer a good fit. Moving data from one LDAP to another can be so complicated that businesses avoid it altogether, choosing to hobble along with their legacy systems rather than risk the pain and expense of a migration.

Optimal IdM’s Virtual Identity Server (VIS) easily solves this problem by emulating the old LDAP platform while proxying requests to the new LDAP environment. VIS can also make a seamless transition from an obsolete and no longer supported virtual directory.

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Secure and Protect Your Active Directory

Merchants can deploy Optimal IdM’s Virtual Identity Server (VIS) as an LDAP proxy firewall to protect and secure the sensitive identity data stored in the active directory. The result is an environment that is not only more secure, but is also made more robust with additional performance capabilities.

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Identity and Access Management for Retail

Identity & Access Management for Retail Businesses