Pomeroy was hired by a Fortune 20 supermarket client. With annual revenue of over one billion dollars, the retailer operates nearly 2,800 retail, food, drug, jewelry, and chain stores. (Pomeroy, n.d.). The company asked the execution to occur in parallel with another system-wide deployment to resolve other critical issues.
The clients’ Network Data Security included their stores operating on single, open network where store-wide devices capable of transmitting, receiving and storing confidential customer data of one department. The pharmacy, POS, fuel center, and others could inadvertently distribute data with unauthorized devices of additional departments. Technology deployment backlog network segmentation was projected to undergo 29 months
The clients’ Network Data Security included their stores operating on single, open network where store-wide devices capable of transmitting, receiving and storing confidential customer data of one department. The pharmacy, POS, fuel center, and others could inadvertently distribute data with unauthorized devices of additional departments. Technology deployment backlog network segmentation was projected to undergo 29 months