AIMS360 runs on Microsoft Azure with Azure Firewall at the network layer, Azure Web Application Firewall at the application layer, and Azure Monitor with active threat detection. Data is encrypted at rest with Transparent Data Encryption in Azure SQL, in transit with TLS, and sensitive information is encrypted at the column level. Payments are tokenized so cardholder data never reaches AIMS360, and development work uses cleansed data or an isolated sandbox rather than your live records.
Your order book, your costing, your customer list and your payment records are the most sensitive data your brand holds. AIMS360 runs on Microsoft Azure with network and application firewalls, active monitoring and threat detection, encryption at rest and in transit, column-level encryption for sensitive fields, tokenized payments so card data never reaches our systems, and a development practice where cleansed data or a sandbox is used instead of your live records.
AIMS360 protects brand data with four layers: Microsoft Azure infrastructure security including Azure Firewall and Azure Web Application Firewall, encryption of data both at rest and in transit with additional column-level encryption on sensitive fields, tokenized payment processing so cardholder data never enters AIMS360, and a development practice that uses cleansed data or an isolated sandbox rather than live production records.
Those layers matter because an apparel or consumer brands ERP holds more than orders. It holds landed cost, margin by account, wholesale price lists, factor and credit information, customer terms and the full retailer relationship. That is competitive intelligence, and it is the data a brand can least afford to lose.
AIMS360 is hosted on Microsoft Azure, so the physical data centres, the hardware and the hypervisor are secured and audited by Microsoft. On top of that platform AIMS360 configures the controls that protect your tenant specifically.
A managed, stateful network firewall filtering traffic to and from the AIMS360 environment. Rules govern which traffic reaches the application and database tiers at all, so exposure is limited to what is required to run the service.
Inspects HTTP and HTTPS traffic and blocks common web attacks before they reach the application, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting attempts. This is the layer a network firewall alone cannot see.
Continuous monitoring with alerting on anomalous activity. The difference between a contained incident and a breach is usually how quickly it is noticed, so detection runs constantly rather than on a review schedule.
Because Azure operates a global network of data centres with redundant power, cooling and connectivity, AIMS360 inherits physical and environmental controls that would be impractical for a mid-market brand to build and maintain in its own server room.
Encryption is often described as a single feature. It is three separate protections, and each one closes a different gap.
| Layer | What it protects | How AIMS360 does it |
|---|---|---|
| At rest | The stored database and its backups, if the underlying files were ever obtained | Transparent Data Encryption in Azure SQL, using AES-256. Database files, log files and backups are encrypted on disk. |
| In transit | Data moving between your browser or device and the AIMS360 environment | TLS on connections, so traffic cannot be read if intercepted on the network. |
| Column level | The most sensitive individual fields, even from someone with database access | Sensitive information is encrypted within the database itself, so reading the underlying tables does not reveal those values in plain text. |
That third layer is the one most systems skip. Encryption at rest protects against a stolen disk. It does not protect a sensitive field from anyone who can already query the database. Encrypting sensitive information inside the SQL database means those values stay protected even in a legitimate database session, which narrows the blast radius of a compromised credential.
The strongest way to protect cardholder data is to never hold it. AIMS360 takes that approach.
Payments are handled through PCI DSS compliant payment processors. Card details are captured and tokenized by the processor, and AIMS360 stores only a token and the transaction reference. There is no cardholder data sitting in your ERP database to be exposed.
Keeping card data out of the ERP reduces the scope of what has to be protected and audited on your side. It also removes the single most attractive target from the system your whole team logs into every day.
AIMS360 works with payment and receivables partners including Resolve Pay and the factoring partners on the accounting side. Confirm the specific processor and its current compliance documentation with your AIMS360 contact when you set up payments.
Most ERP security pages stop at infrastructure. The more common real-world exposure is not an attacker on the network, it is production data being copied onto a laptop so somebody can reproduce a bug.
AIMS360 does not work that way. When our developers investigate an issue, build an enhancement or test a change, they work against cleansed data or an isolated sandbox rather than your live records. Sensitive values are removed or masked before anything reaches a development environment.
The people doing that work know the industry. AIMS360 developers build for apparel, footwear and consumer brands specifically, so a support case is handled by somebody who understands what a size scale, a cut ticket, a factored invoice or a retailer chargeback really is. That matters for security as well as for speed: an engineer who understands the data model knows which fields are sensitive and why, rather than treating every table as interchangeable.
Founded in 1984, AIMS360 has spent 40+ years building for this industry and serves brands across ten consumer categories including apparel, footwear, outdoor and sporting goods, beauty and personal care, and pet products.
Permissions are set by role, so a warehouse team member, a sales rep and a controller each see what their job requires. Costing and margin can be restricted from staff who do not need them.
Azure SQL maintains automated backups, and those backups are encrypted with the same Transparent Data Encryption that protects the live database.
AIMS360 provides 24x7 emergency support and priority support for EDI, so an urgent problem is not waiting for the next business day.
For how the platform handles retailer document exchange under the same architecture, see built-in EDI, and for hosting and rollout detail see implementation.
What brands ask before they move their order book into a cloud ERP.
AIMS360 is hosted on Microsoft Azure. The data centres, hardware and hypervisor are secured and audited by Microsoft, and AIMS360 configures the controls protecting your environment on top of that: Azure Firewall at the network layer, Azure Web Application Firewall at the application layer, and Azure Monitor with active threat detection.
Yes, at three levels. Data at rest is encrypted with Transparent Data Encryption in Azure SQL using AES-256, which covers the database files, log files and backups. Data in transit is protected with TLS. And sensitive information is additionally encrypted at the column level inside the database, so those values are not readable in plain text even from a database session.
No. Payments run through PCI DSS compliant payment processors. Card details are captured and tokenized by the processor, and AIMS360 holds only a token and a transaction reference. Cardholder data never reaches the AIMS360 database, which removes it as a target entirely and reduces what has to be protected on your side.
No. When our team investigates an issue or builds an enhancement, they work against cleansed data or an isolated sandbox rather than your production records. Sensitive values are removed or masked before anything reaches a development environment, and changes are tested before they reach your live system.
Encryption at rest protects the stored database files, so obtaining the disk or a backup does not reveal the data. It does not protect a field from someone who can already query the database legitimately. Column-level encryption protects individual sensitive values inside the database itself, so those specific fields stay unreadable even in an authorised session. AIMS360 uses both.
Yes. Access is role based, so permissions follow the job. A warehouse team member, a sales rep and a controller each see what their role requires, and cost, margin and other commercially sensitive data can be restricted from anyone who does not need it. Limiting internal exposure is as much a part of ERP security as the perimeter.
For most consumer brands, yes. Running your own server means owning physical security, patching, firewall configuration, monitoring, backup verification and disaster recovery with a small team that has other work to do. On Azure those controls are maintained continuously, with redundant power, cooling and connectivity across a global data centre network. The common failure mode for on-premise ERP is not a sophisticated attack, it is an unpatched server and a backup nobody tested.
Yes. Azure SQL maintains automated backups, and Transparent Data Encryption covers backup files along with the live database and its logs. A backup that is not encrypted is one of the most common ways data leaves an organisation, so it is protected with the same key management as the database it came from.
If you are running a vendor security review or moving off an on-premise system, our team will walk you through the architecture, the encryption model and how we handle your data during support and development.
By Shahrooz Kohan, CEO, AIMS360. Last updated August 2026. Talk to our team.
Microsoft, Azure, Azure SQL, Azure Firewall and Azure Monitor are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PCI DSS is administered by the PCI Security Standards Council. This page describes the controls AIMS360 operates and is provided for information. For the current detail required by a formal vendor security review, contact the AIMS360 team.
