
### What is the 23 NYCRR Part 500? {#what-is-the-23-nycrr-part-500}
The[ NYDFS CyberSecurity Regulation Guidelines](https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/Cybersecurity_Requirements_Financial_Services_23NYCRR500.pdf), released on March 1 2017, are a set of regulations from the New York Department of Financial Services that places new cybersecurity requirements on financial institutions. These new guidelines under 23 NYCRR Part 500 affected licensed lenders, state-chartered banks, trust companies, service contract providers, private bankers, mortgage companies, insurance firms doing business in New York, non-U.S. banks licensed to operate in New York, and many other organizations, which now have to comply with these additional Cybersecurity Requirements.  

These NYDFS Cybersecurity guidelines focus more on a cybersecurity program risk assessment which determines an entity’s best practices and policies to mitigate security risks. Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the form of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or equivalent measures, is now required by the NYDFS. Specifically, section 500.1 defines MFA as follows:  

“Multi-Factor Authentication means authentication through verification of at least two of the following types of authentication factors: (1) Knowledge factors, such as a password; or (2) Possession factors, such as a token or text message on a mobile phone; or (3) Inherence factors, such as a biometric characteristic.”  

Additional sections that are pertinent to effective IAM include:  
“Risk-Based Authentication means any risk-based system of authentication that detects anomalies or changes in the normal use patterns of a Person and requires additional verification of the Person’s identity when such deviations or changes are detected, such as through the use of challenge questions.”  

NYDFS also describes how each Covered Entity needs to implement and maintain cybersecurity regulation policies. One of the areas explicitly covered as part of the cybersecurity policies relates to access controls and identity management. Covered Entities must prove they have effective IAM measures in place to eliminate or reduce unauthorized access to sensitive information by hackers, phishers, insiders, or third parties.  

According to these new cybersecurity guidelines by the NYDFS, IAM becomes the most important factor to protect huge customer and business information. So implementing MFA, Lifecycle Management and other solutions can help organizations to ensure that they comply with these new guidelines.

 

### Why is 23 NYCRR Part 500 needed? {#why-is-23-nycrr-part-500-needed}
To prevent data breaches, cyber security threats & unauthorized access. These cybersecurity guidelines help organizations secure their environment from different cyber security threats to protect all types of data.
 

### How can miniOrange help you? {#how-can-miniorange-help-you} 

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| Regulation Requirement | How miniOrange can help |
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| 500.02- Cybersecurity Program,  (b)(1)–Covered Entities must identify and assess internal/external cybersecurity risks | • miniOrange provides detailed data reporting of all different types of authentications done across cloud, mobile, web and on-premise applications. |
| | • miniOrange’s system also detects suspicious login/location/user etc. and forces such anomalous events to authenticate again through multiple ways, to prevent threats to cybersecurity. |
| 500.06 – Audit trail, (a)(1) – logging, (a)(2)–a Covered Entity’s audit trails must be designed to detect and respond to cybersecurity suspicious events | • miniOrange provides detailed data reporting of all different types of authentications done across cloud, mobile, web and on-premise applications.
| | • miniOrange’s system also detects suspicious login/location/user etc. and forces such anomalous events to authenticate again through multiple ways.
| | • Admin or Super-admins can take action based on suspicious detected events, such as prompting for step-up authentication, limiting or revoking access, changing user group membership, and more. |
| 500.07- Access Privileges- Covered Entity shall limit user access to Nonpublic Information and shall periodically review such access privileges | • Sophisticated lifecycle management ensures the permitted level of access to the right applications.
| | • Covered entities can easily set access and entitlement rules based on attributes, such as user group membership.
| | • miniOrange provides visibility into who has access to which data via simple access governance that offers the ability to see all users who have access to specific applications. |
| 500.09- Risk Assessment by covered entities | • miniOrange provides detailed data reporting of all different types of authentications done across cloud, mobile, web and on-premise applications.
| | • miniOrange’s system also detects suspicious login/location/user etc. and forces such anomalous events to authenticate again through multiple ways. |
| 500.12- Multi-Factor Authentication | • miniOrange provides 15+ MFA methods including adaptive MFA for intelligent, contextual access based on user location and device attributes.
| | • miniOrange’s flexible policy framework allows for step-up authentication based on risk-based user or device context such as anomalous location, brute force attempts, etc.
| | • miniOrange’s flexible and granular policy framework allows different MFA policies for different user types including admins, users, and third parties (contractors and partners, etc.).
| | • miniOrange’s multiple network zone support allows policies to be defined for access from outside your firm’s network. |
| 500.14- Training and Monitoring- Covered Entity shall implement risk-based policies, procedures and controls designed to monitor the activity  provide regular cybersecurity awareness training | • miniOrange’s detailed data reporting of all different types of authentications done across cloud, mobile, web and on-premise applications which also detects suspicious login/location/user etc. and forces such anomalous events to authenticate again through multiple ways.
| | • Anomalous events are surfaced in the syslog and include brute force detections, anomalous login/location/client detections, low reputation network login detections, and more. |  

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miniOrange provides [Identity and Access Management](https://www.miniorange.com/what-is-iam-identity-and-access-management) services quickly for the management of information such as users, organizations, devices, services, etc., and in a very cost-effective manner to its customers.  

With miniOrange IAM systems, you do not need to worry about administrative overheads. We provide IAM services, which take care of your security, administrative, access management and help you focus on your core business.  

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- The identity and access management policy, including the responsibilities and accountabilities, should be defined, approved, and implemented.
    - An Identity and access management solution which is highly flexible to fit into any organization’s policy or workflow as per the customer requirements and existing setup.
    - Centralized, simple management and synchronization of identities for users, devices, and things. Can integrate with any system and enhance authentication and authorization capabilities with multiple protocols and connectors for web apps, mobile apps, thick-client applications, etc. Highly flexible and therefore able to fit almost any use case.  

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- Compliance with the identity and access policy should be monitored.
    - miniOrange generates real-time reports for high-level usage summary, per user summary, user authentication, active usage report, etc. to monitor the user activities across the applications.
    - Logs are saved for monitoring, debugging issues, recovery, etc. miniOrange can integrate with your SIEM tools for real-time monitoring of the organization’s Information security systems.  

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- The effectiveness of the cybersecurity controls within the identity and access management policy should be measured and periodically evaluated.
    - All users are given controlled access to the applications with the help of multi-factor authentication during Single Sign-on. miniOrange provides multiple parameters for adaptive authentication such as restriction based on IP, device, location, time for proper evaluation of user before giving access.
    - The administrator can receive updates/ alerts for any behavior change of the user.
    - You can create multiple groups for different levels of users and have access policies depending on the groups. Any new user can be added to the appropriate groups and he will be provisioned to the allowed application of that specific group.
    - Any inappropriate access can be easily revoked at any point in time.  
		
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- The identity and access management policy should include
    - business requirements for access control (i.e., need-to-have and need-to-know);
        - You can create user/group access policies for your applications based on the role and requirements of each user/group.
        - Users can access their respective applications with one click from the miniOrange dashboard without having to log in every time.
    - User access management (e.g., joiners, movers, leavers):
        - Users can be added to the system with any of the following methods –
            - Manual addition of Users/Vendors.
            - Bulk upload of users and groups using the CSV upload method.
            - Connect to your existing Identity provider ( eg. Okta, OneLogin, Keycloak, ADFS, etc.)
            - Connect to AD/LDAP
            - Use your existing database as an identity store ( My-SQL, MS-SQL, etc.)
            - Provision your users through your HR management system.  

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- To streamline the process of assigning and managing the user access rights, miniOrange provides an automated user access management system. This will aid in time management and allow administrators to take faster and quick action against any security breaches and prevent improper user activity.centralization of the identity and access management function;  

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- Provisioning and Deprovisioning are handled in one place using a centralized identity and access management system. IT resources are centrally controlled with miniOrange IAM services, and users can access all apps and tools from a single dashboard with the convenience of a single sign-on. Click to learn more multi-factor authentication for sensitive and critical systems and profiles;  

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- miniOrange provides 15+ authentication methods and solutions for various use cases. This additional layer prevents unauthorized persons from the resources, even if they know your username and password, thus protecting sensitive and critical information. Click to learn more. privileged and remote access management, which should address:
    - the allocation and restricted use of privileged and remote access, specifying:
        - multi-factor authentication should be used for all remote access;
            - MFA provides an extra layer of security for remote access. MFA for remote access will prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing critical data while also improving the organization’s overall security strategy.multi-factor authentication should be used for privilege access on critical systems based on a risk assessment;  

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miniOrange provides the facility of multi-factor authentication to be used on privileged access. This secures your repositories, logs, and administrator account by ensuring that only authorized workers have access to your privileged account passwords.


Learn about the latest NYDS Cybersecurity Regulation, how it is achieved within an organization with principles around data security, security policies, and much more.

How does miniOrange help organizations to comply with NYDFS Cyber Security Guidelines?


Enable secure [Single Sign-On (SSO)](https://www.miniorange.com/reverse-proxy/secure-shopify-admin-login) access to your Staff Members and add an unlimited number of staff members in Shopify Admin to manage your Shopify Store. You can completely own your Shopify Store by restricting your staff member’s access based on tags assigned to them. Login from multiple IDPs is also supported which will help in authenticating users from different IDPs for your Plus & Non-plus Shopify Store.

### Have you ever dreamt of completely owning your Shopify Store and being able to manage your Store as per your needs? {#manage-your-store}

With the most cost-effective “SSO into Admin Dashboard” application by miniOrange, it is now possible to add unlimited users as staff members to manage your Shopify Store and streamline the entire store management process. Adding unlimited Staff Members to their Shopify Stores has been a dream for many merchants. Until now there was no other way to [add unlimited Staff Members to your Non-Plus Shopify Store](https://www.miniorange.com/reverse-proxy/enable-shopify-multi-staff-with-reverse-proxy). miniOrange took this into consideration and developed an application that will allow merchants to add an unlimited number of staff members in their Shopify Store to manage different sections of their Store like orders, products, customers etc. Merchants can assign members to a specific section which will ease the Store Management process in Shopify. This application works for the Non-Plus stores of Shopify as well, isn’t it great?

### Can we compare it with Shopify’s existing functionalities and is it expensive? {#comparison}
With miniOrange application enable SSO into Shopify allowing users to login using a single set of credentials. Also, allow your staff members to SSO into Shopify’s admin dashboard allowing an unlimited number of users to be added to manage your store. You can go with the Shopify basic plan and install miniOrange applications that will securely fulfil your requirements in a very affordable way. SSO into Admin Dashboard Application will enable more features than that of Shopify Plus. Good thing is that it comes at a very affordable price in comparison to Shopify’s Plus Subscription.

## Is it better than Shopify Plus?
### Shopify Plus already allows the merchants to add an unlimited number of staff members to manage their stores. So how come our application is still better than the Shopify Plus? {#why-miniorange-app-is-better}

With our SSO into Admin Dashboard Application, you can enable SSO from any Identity Providers like Okta, Azure AD, AWS Cognito, ADFS, etc. using the standard authentication protocols like SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, JWT, LDAP, etc. Enable support for multiple IDPs in your Plus Store using our SSO into Admin Dashboard application. Shopify Plus supports multipass to allow SSO for its users, however, its functionalities are limited only to a single IDP and SAML Authentication Protocol. With our SSO into Admin Dashboard application, you can enable SSO into Shopify Admin using any standard authentication protocol and integrate multiple IDPs. Our application also supports Cross Protocol, i.e. configuring Service Provider following a particular protocol with an Identity Provider following some different protocol. For Example, a SAML Identity Provider can be connected to an OAuth Service Provider without needing to implement any complex operations. You can also integrate SSO via user stores from an Active Directory or from a database like MySQL.

### I have added the Staff Members to my store what next? {#manage-staff-memebers}
Assign specific roles to your staff members. You can assign user roles in such a way that a user can be assigned to perform a role as small as just deleting the customers. Likewise, a user can be given complete access to all sections of your Store as well. Hence, you can assign roles according to the expertise of the staff members and manage your Shopify Store flawlessly. Once the staff roles are assigned let our SSO into Admin Dashboard Application do all the magic for you.

### What all operations can be performed by the Staff Members using SSO into Shopify Admin? {#sso-into-shopify-admin}
1. CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations on the orders, products, customers, discounts, etc. from the Admin Dashboard directly.
2. Provide discount coupons to customers based on tags assigned to them.
3. Publish, edit, and update the Shopify Themes from the admin dashboard.
4. Create draft orders and convert them to real orders.
5. Get a sense of your store’s order volume and flow, as well as overall fulfillment performance, with orders reports.
6. Track Total Sales so that you know exactly what you need to do to reach your goals, So Keep track of everyday sales in your store.

![Operations supported by Shopify SSO](/blog/assets/2023/shopify-sso-blog-banner-image.webp)

### Use cases solved using SSO into Shopify Admin {#use-cases-solved}
1. Looking to enable Single Sign On (SSO) into Shopify’s Admin Dashboard. One-click Login for all users using only a single set of login credentials.
2. Want to add an unlimited number of staff members in Shopify Admin to manage your Store.
3. Restrict access to different sections of Shopify admin based on the role assigned to users.
4. Want to enable SSO for your Staff Members based in Multiple Identity Providers (IDPs) and restrict their access based on their IDP or tags.
5. Create different internal teams and allow a team to access only the section they work on.

### Further Readings {#further-readings}
1. [Check out Shopify Single Sign-On by miniOrange to ease the Authentication for your customers by enabling one-click login](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify-single-sign-on)
2. [Read more about what is Single Sign-On & Why it is Important](https://blog.miniorange.com/single-sign-on-sso-shopify-store/)
3. [Enable MFA for your Shopify Store to add an extra layer of security to onboard only genuine users](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify-2-factor-authentication)
4. [Explore more applications available on Shopify Appstore](https://apps.shopify.com/partners/miniorange-inc)
5. [miniOrange has its own Identity Provider (IDP), want to know more?](https://www.miniorange.com/)

Enable Single Sign On (SSO) in Shopify Admin & add unlimited staff members & restrict their access based on tags. Also supports SSO login via Multiple IDPs.

Enable SSO into Shopify Admin & Add Unlimited Staff Members


[**Store migration**](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify-ecommerce-store-migration) is the process of moving data such as products, orders, customers, collections, images, manufacturers, etc. from one eCommerce platform to another.

Your online store is getting bigger but its eCommerce website just cannot keep pace with the growth. Is it too slow and too expensive or too complex or lacks the features to keep your customers happy and coming back? You don’t have to stick with it and don’t have to start from scratch either. If you’re thinking about migrating your eCommerce store to a new platform, consider **Shopify. Shopify** is a great platform and has a lot of benefits that you will see later. You can use the miniOrange Store migration application to migrate your eCommerce website to Shopify. Using this application you can easily migrate your entire store, all your products, customers, orders, and everything from any eCommerce website over to Shopify within minutes.

### How does Migration work? {#how-migration-works}
![](/blog/assets/2023/Connect-your-current-source-store.webp)

### Why migrate/import to Shopify? {#why-migrate}
A large number of store owners are migrating from legacy platforms to Shopify even though moving from a legacy platform to a new one requires a lot of work. Shopify is an eCommerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products and integrate them with social networking, payment feature, shopping cart, etc. all managed within Shopify.

![](/blog/assets/2023/store-migration.webp)

**By migrating your eCommerce store to Shopify you can enhance the growth of your business and also boost your sales.**
Here are some reasons why you should migrate to the Shopify platform(s)
1. Scalable
2. Secure
3. The ecosystem is robust with experts and solution
4. Customize your store from scratch
5. Big Collection of Themes
6. Diversity of Add-Ons
7. Cost-Effectiveness

### How to Migrate to Shopify? {#how-to-migrate-to-shopify}
In general, there are three methods by which you can migrate your eCommerce website to Shopify. 
1. You can import and export the data manually from your eCommerce website to your Shopify store and vice versa. It may appear simple because you just have to copy the data from the source store and paste it into the target store. This mode might be acceptable until hundreds of data points have been collected.
2. You can hire a developer to migrate the data from your eCommerce website to the Shopify store but considering the cost of hiring an expert, it is not the best option available.
3. You can go for an automated store migration service such as a miniOrange Store migration application. Automated eCommerce migration is a cutting-edge method for both web developers and newcomers who want to run their businesses while online converters do all of the work for them.

### Why Choose a miniOrange application for store migration? {#why-choose-miniorange-apps}
miniOrange store migration application offers you the best flawless migration with a negligible amount of risk so that you can get your store running smoothly. miniOrange provides you the easiest way to migrate your important data such as products, customers, orders, and even more. The miniOrange store migration application provides extensive support during or after your store migration and ensures no downtime on your current store. Without any coding skills or hiring a developer, you can manage your data migration easily using miniOrange store migration. Simply connect your current and new platform and choose the data type you want to migrate and that’s it. miniOrange will move the records to a new online home in no time.


![](/blog/assets/2023/features-web3.webp)

1. **Clean your Target Store data before Migration:**
Using this feature you can delete/erase all the data on your Target Store so that you can avoid mixing and duplication of data during the migration process. Always create a backup of your data before migration.

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2. **Migrate Product SKUs, Images, Categories, Description:**
This feature helps you in transferring images in descriptions of products, categories, and product SKUs. 

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3. **Migrate Customers groups from Source store to Customer tags in Shopify:**
feature can help you in migrating your customer groups from the Source store into customer tags on Shopify so that you can manage customers through tags.

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4. **Migrate Source Store categories into collections on Shopify:**
During the migration process,  using this feature you can migrate all of your categories including sub-categories to Shopify collections.

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5.  **Re-migration:**
We recommend you to use the re-migration feature if there has been some issue in setting up the source cart or target cart or some fields, the migrated data is corrupted before and after the migration, and many other reasons like that. In such cases, you can request miniOrange to start the migration all over again.

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6. **Preserve Order, Customer, Product IDs when migrating:**
Using this feature you can preserve your Order, Product, and Customer ID in the Target store just as in your Source store.

### Conclusion {#conclusion}
We hope you’ve learned everything you need about Shopify migration. Overall, 
1.  Store Migration can be easier or more difficult depending on the size of your store. 
2.  For Migration you can have three options, you can migrate data manually or you can hire a developer or you can go for an automated store migration application.
3.  Migrate your products, orders, customers, and much more from a single platform.
4.  You can easily manage your data migration with miniOrange store migration without any coding skills or hiring a developer.

### Need Help Migrating? {#need-help-migrarting}
Contact us at shopifysupport@xecurify.com so that we can help you in migrating your eCommerce website to Shopify and vice versa.

### Further Reading {#further-reading}
[Shopify store migration features](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify-ecommerce-store-migration#features)
[Shopify store migration benefits](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify-ecommerce-store-migration)
[Other Security Solution for Shopify](https://plugins.miniorange.com/shopify)	

How does miniOrange help organizations to comply with NYDFS Cyber Security Guidelines?

Enable SSO into Shopify Admin & Add Unlimited Staff Members

What is Store Migration? How can we Migrate an eCommerce site to Shopify