Network Security of Yum! Brands

Most people are no strangers to fried chicken, burgers, egg tarts, pizza and other delicacies. Few of them, however, are aware of the connection between these foods and H3C's next-generation firewall.

Fried chicken, burgers, egg tarts, pizza from Yum! Brands

The story begins with Yum! Brands. The chain restaurant sector is well known for its fierce competition. Only the strongest brand can stand out. To survive the fierce competition, while ensuring its service and food quality, Yum! Brands has actively utilized various IT approaches, including building a VPN (Virtual Private Network) of multi-point interconnection. The Internet-based VPN has provided its chain stores with a highly secure, reliable, and powerful network transmission environment, which has remained stable for years, contributing to its success across the country.

As the world's largest restaurant chain group, Yum! Brands operates over 43,000 chain restaurants in more than 130 countries and regions. The portfolio of brands includes KFC, Pizza Hut, and East Dawning. In 2015, Yum! Brands recorded revenue of more than $13 billion, ranking 228th on the Fortune 500 list.

The informatization construction of Yum! Brands in China aims to build a network for tens of thousands of chain restaurants. To achieve its business goals, the VPN for chain restaurants requires network security products and solutions with outstanding quality, stability, reliability and safety. Yum! Brands spent more than one year analyzing the project, verifying solutions, exchanging technological information, and performing tests and experiments in 2010 and finally decided to adopt the firewall product provided by H3C as an integrated VPN gateway device. After more than 5 years of construction, the firewall devices were applied to its branches in China, providing a safe, reliable, timely and effective information channel to headquarters and branches to facilitate real-time communication and collection and improve the efficiency of operation and decision-making for Yum! Brands.

Internet of Yum! Brands

As Internet applications have been rapidly updated in recent years, network security threats continue to emerge, driving up the need for network security protection. In 2015, Yum! Brands decided to upgrade firewall products of its headquarters and branches to jointly support its VPN business. As a multinational, Yum! Brands has almost been picky when it comes to its network security products. H3C provided professional firewall devices that had served stably and reliably for up to 5 years. The constant product release cycle, high-quality production standards, and excellent service process of the security protection product line convinced Yum! Brands to choose H3C as the supplier for the upgrade.

Diverse products, ultra-10 Gigabit, and high stability.
H3C has lived up to the expectations by providing excellent solutions and products for Yum! Brands. The F5000 series of H3C's next-generation ultra-10 Gigabit firewall product serves as the core gateway of its headquarters and provides a secure VPN network interconnection channel for branches.

The H3C NGFW F5000 series used in this project is an ultra-10 Gigabit high-performance firewall with powerful IPSec VPN processing capabilities. It supports the access of large concurrent site-to-site VPN, which can avoid the performance bottleneck during the transmission of VPN data between the headquarters and tens of thousands of branches.

In addition, the NGFW F5000 series integrates multiple security features, such as intrusion detection and antivirus, to provide an all-around defense for Yum! Brands's VPN. It supports the smart link load feature to ensure fast and stable data transmission.

H3C SecPath F5000-C-b_F

Despite the massive deployment, H3C firewall devices have remained reliable, providing solid protection and VPN networking and ensuring stable and uninterrupted operation, which is the top priority for all restaurant operators. In addition, H3C's next-generation firewall can ensure the ease of use and cost-effectiveness of the devices while providing a stable and reliable VPN and complete protection.

Security, cutting-edge technologies, and trustworthiness
The successful cooperation with Yum! Brands is just one example of H3C's competitiveness in the information security field. Since engaging in the information security field in 2003, H3C has rapidly grown into a market leader in China, with more than 870 information security technologies and 35 categories of nearly 300 security products. H3C has released security solutions and "Tianji" System in 2015 and propelled the evolution of information security from passive defense to active defense with a bottom-up network space security defense system, which meets the security needs of applying the new generation of information technology such as intelligent connectivity, big data, and cloud computing.

In addition, H3C is one of the leading members of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, responsible for the compilation of three series of standards and the preparation and technical research of the next generation of Internet IPV6 security pilot standards.

Yum! Brands highly acknowledged H3C's leadership in the field of network security. Currently, Yum! Brands has purchased H3C firewall products for its VPN network construction for five consecutive years. H3C will continue to fulfill its commitment to ensuring information security for the catering industry.

H3C is a leading provider of new IT solutions and is committed to the research, production, consulting, sales and services of new IT solutions and products. H3C has a full portfolio of servers, storage, network, security, hyper-converged systems and IT management systems and other products. It can provide one-stop IT solutions, including intelligent connectivity, information security, cloud computing, big data, and IT consulting services. H3C is also a provider of servers, storage and technical services for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in China.