Comparison Overview

McDonald's

VS

Brinker International

McDonald's

110 N Carpenter St, None, Chicago, Illinois, US, 60607
Last Update: 2025-12-11

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries. More than 90% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women. McDonald's & our franchisees employ 1.9 million people worldwide. We serve the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous Fries, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Chicken McNuggets and Egg McMuffin. To learn more about the company, please visit www.aboutmcdonalds.com.

NAICS: 7225
NAICS Definition: Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Employees: 355,175
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
3
Known data breaches
6
Attack type number
2

Brinker International

3000 Olympus Blvd, Dallas, Texas, 75019, US
Last Update: 2025-12-10
Between 750 and 799

Dallas-based Brinker International, Inc. is one of the world’s leading casual dining restaurant companies. Founded in 1975, Brinker owns, operates or franchises more than 1,600 restaurants across 31 countries and two territories under the names Chili’s® Grill & Bar and Maggiano’s Little Italy®. Our Restaurant Support Center is a custom-built, lakefront building located in Cypress Waters – an office, living and retail development in the heart of Dallas-Fort Worth. Every aspect of our campus was designed to encourage personal wellbeing, team-oriented workstyle, and Brinker’s mantra of “Let’s Play Restaurant.” Our favorite features include flexible collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art test kitchen, a game room stocked with modern and nostalgic games, fitness center catering to individual and group workouts, and an inviting community eating and vending area. While the campus is beautiful, Brinker’s true pride is in our Team Members. In fact, the Restaurant Support Center is proud to have been named one of Dallas' best places to work by the Dallas Business Journal and The Dallas Morning News for three consecutive years!

NAICS: 7225
NAICS Definition: Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Employees: 34,178
Subsidiaries: 2
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
1
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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McDonald's
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Brinker International
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
McDonald's
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Brinker International
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Restaurants Industry Average (This Year)

McDonald's has 322.54% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.

Incidents vs Restaurants Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Brinker International in 2025.

Incident History — McDonald's (X = Date, Y = Severity)

McDonald's cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Brinker International (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Brinker International cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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McDonald's
Incidents

Date Detected: 8/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Client-Side Manipulation (Mobile App Reward Points), Unauthenticated API Endpoints (Design Hub, GRS Panel), URL Manipulation (Login to Register Bypass), Weak Authentication (Password '123456' in Hiring System), Exposed API Keys (Magicbell, Algolia), Impersonation Feature in Employee Portals, HTML Injection via Unauthenticated Admin APIs, Misconfigured Access Controls (Stravito, TRT Tool)
Motivation: Ethical Disclosure, Security Awareness, Responsible Vulnerability Reporting
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Weak Default Credentials, Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 6/2025
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog
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Brinker International
Incidents

Date Detected: 5/2018
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

FAQ

Brinker International company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to McDonald's company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

McDonald's company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Brinker International company.

In the current year, McDonald's company has reported more cyber incidents than Brinker International company.

Neither Brinker International company nor McDonald's company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Both Brinker International company and McDonald's company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

Neither Brinker International company nor McDonald's company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

McDonald's company has disclosed at least one vulnerability, while Brinker International company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

McDonald's company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Brinker International company.

McDonald's company employs more people globally than Brinker International company, reflecting its scale as a Restaurants.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds HIPAA certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Brinker International holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

NXLog Agent before 6.11 can load a file specified by the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.1
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description

uriparser through 0.9.9 allows unbounded recursion and stack consumption, as demonstrated by ParseMustBeSegmentNzNc with large input containing many commas.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 2.9
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description

A vulnerability was detected in Mayan EDMS up to 4.10.1. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /authentication/. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 4.10.2 is sufficient to fix this issue. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor confirms that this is "[f]ixed in version 4.10.2". Furthermore, that "[b]ackports for older versions in process and will be out as soon as their respective CI pipelines complete."

Risk Information
cvss2
Base: 5.0
Severity: LOW
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
cvss3
Base: 4.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
cvss4
Base: 5.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

MJML through 4.18.0 allows mj-include directory traversal to test file existence and (in the type="css" case) read files. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12827.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.5
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
Description

A half-blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in kube-controller-manager when using the in-tree Portworx StorageClass. This vulnerability allows authorized users to leak arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints in the control plane’s host network (including link-local or loopback services).

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.8
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N