However, such measures in many cases would not be feasible to deploy at each retail location. As such, a process as mentioned above is even more important to address carefully. In numerous industries, mission critical applications commonly leverage technologies such as smart cards, one time passwords, and others for protecting such vital operating states as unlocking the Local Security Service. The unlock keys should be available in different formats in automatic mode and in response to a request to the Central Helpdesk.


The same key is not used in both cases. The whole path in the automatic case must be protected. Since the key may be requested from the Helpdesk, the Helpdesk should not have complete knowledge of a single key for one store and the keys should be different across different stores. Please review this page for additional discussion about this topic.