How Zaxby’s Secures 1,000+ Restaurant Locations with Fortinet | Customer Stories
Security researchers examine technical aspects of How Zaxby’s Secures 1,000+ Restaurant Locations with Fortinet | Customer Stories.
Summary
Company context
Zaxby's QSR leaders Jeremy Bargainer and Adam Price describe ~300 corporate staff, ~30,000 franchise-associated people, 1,000+ stores, rapid growth after Goldman Sachs/Leonard Green acquisition, and a four-person security team serving the whole brand.
Security journey
Post-acquisition, they built digital customer platforms and security from scratch. Fortinet became the backbone: FortiGate for store/franchise connectivity, FortiCNAT for cloud workloads, then FortiSIEM replacing an under-delivering prior SIEM, and FortiSOAR for automation and a single incident pane.
Franchise packaging
They offer franchisees a turnkey FortiGate/FortiAP/LTE-backup package so operators can focus on selling chicken, not networking.
Why Fortinet
Consolidation, native integrations, CMDB capabilities, mixing performance and security alerts, professional-services support for a fast SIEM migration, and planned AI use for defensive SOC assistance and guardrails against unsafe AI uploads.
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