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Collins Foods, the franchisee of KFC and Taco Bell eating places in Australia, used the previous monetary yr to search out methods to cut back its IT infrastructure and footprint, and to overview its cyber safety controls.
The fast service eating places (QSR) operator described the IT works in a sustainability report launched alongside its FY22 outcomes.
“In FY22, we accomplished an unbiased info and cyber safety management testing and maturity baseline train,” it stated.
“Using this info, we then developed a three-year enterprise info and cyber safety technique designed to uplift safety management maturity, cut back enterprise threat and guarantee improved alignment with compliance necessities.”
Also within the safety area, the corporate stated it will pursue “ongoing implementation of a know-how evaluation framework to boost understanding of provide chain info and cyber threat inside the enterprise, and guarantee alignment with the Collins Foods info safety coverage.”
Elsewhere, Collins Foods indicated an try and develop its use of cloud-hosted companies, in a bid to chop down on the quantity of {hardware} it makes use of – and finally must be disposed of as soon as reaching its end-of-life.
“In FY22 we started methods to cut back IT infrastructure and footprint, to reduce the quantity of e-waste produced by the enterprise,” it stated.
“To obtain this, we adopted extra on-line platforms and cloud-based servers, avoiding the necessity for bodily {hardware}.”
Collins Foods added that it will additionally search for methods to create extra environment friendly backups, noting it has “partnered with an Australian knowledge centre, which supplies extra power environment friendly choices for backing up knowledge.”
Collins Foods recorded an underlying web revenue after tax for FY22 of $59.7 million.
Ecommerce accounted for 16.9 % of all KFC Australia gross sales in FY22, up from 13.3 % share within the yr prior.
