Multicloud Data Security of highly distributed fast-food chain with Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) SaaS
Overview
A global, Fortune 1000 fast-food corporation, operating multiple leading brands worldwide. The company is one of the world’s largest fast food restaurant companies, spread across more than 125 countries and territories worldwide, with over 48,000 restaurants.
USE CASE
Integrated Data Security ServicesPRODUCTS
INDUSTRY
Food Retail1.5
Million Users
125+
Countries
48,000+
Restaurants
Challenge
Challenge
Too much data and data silos
- The company had a distributed and siloed IT and data infrastructure that was spread across multi-cloud, restaurant-level data centers, and third-party vendor environments and utilized a vast array of operating systems, database tools, and software libraries, including legacy technologies such as POS Ready 2009, SQL Lite, SQL Express, MySQL and mobile platforms such as Android/iOS.
- The siloed data infrastructure made managing data and security a complex exercise. The company wanted a Key Management System (KMS) and Encryption solution that could be implemented across its chain of restaurants with much-needed granular and centralized data security across all stacks of the infrastructure.
- With an ever-increasing requirement to store data across different clouds, databases, storage options and locations, the company had a monumental challenge when it came to securing this data. The company lacked centralized visibility, ability to identify gaps and correlate all the data to detect possible threats.
Solutions
- Integrated data security
The siloed data infrastructure made managing data and security a complex exercise. The company wanted a Key Management System (KMS) and Encryption solution that could be implemented across its chain of restaurants with much-needed granular and centralized data security across all stacks of the infrastructure.
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Why did they choose Fortanix?
Ease of use
Fortanix provided monitoring and management on a single pane of glass. It also offered complete control and visibility into the key management operations.
Plugins
The customer also wanted to run specific algorithms to process the data in the cloud which other solutions were unable to support. Fortanix offered runtime encryption plugins that helped them run specific and custom business logic inside secure enclaves.
Works across Interfaces
The Fortanix DSM SaaS service also supports traditional cryptographic interfaces (PKCS#11, KMIP and more) or its native RESTful interface for faster time to market. This dramatically reduced the turnaround time from months to days.
Availability
Fortanix DSM SaaS offers high availability and a consistent 99.95 SLA that was not committed by the other vendors that were being evaluated.
Scalability
The service is highly scalable and infinitely elastic. Fortanix DSM SaaS supports millions of keys per customer, with horizontal scalability within the site, metro, and region, and low latency with cloud proximity.
Latency
Multicluster distributed architecture ensures that there is constant uptime and minimal latency.
