AP/LP Priorities Follow Omni-Channel Initiatives

By Matt Pillar, chief editor

The digital transformation of stores is the big news coming out of our annual retail tech spending survey (due out next month). Mobile POS hardware and digital signage will lead in-store hardware spending in 2016, and wireless networking/WiFi will lead in-store software spending. That trend points to some significant change for LP/AP professionals. The massive deployment of digital devices and touch points in stores—and the fact that retailers are rolling out the welcome mat to consumers to engage them at the network level—ushers in a new level of digital and network responsibility for those charged with the safekeeping of retail assets.

The modern LP pro has a newfound responsibility for logical security. Retail asset protection is no longer simply about what you can see in the store, it’s about deploying and maintaining safeguards to protect systems and data too. That includes user ID and password management, authentication, access protection, and authority management and oversight to ensure that only authorized users are able to perform actions or access information on the network or at workstations and mobile devices.

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