{"id":1895,"date":"2016-09-07T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:06:12","slug":"microsoft-tackles-security-in-its-brick-and-mortar-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/retail\/2016\/09\/07\/microsoft-tackles-security-in-its-brick-and-mortar-retail-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tackles security in its brick-and-mortar retail stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MSFT_Stores_security2.jpg.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-333431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MSFT_Stores_security2.jpg.png\" alt=\"MSFT_Stores_security2.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Making sure software, products, and services are secure is one thing, but when Microsoft started opening brick-and-mortar retail stores it had an entirely different challenge on hand, especially when you factor in how fast we opened new stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We opened our first store in 2009 and just two years later, in 2011, we opened 30 stores. 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