Risk and Threat Assessment There is strengths and weaknesses; threats and vulnerabilities of every organization’s security system. These issues tend to be those of the same at national and global levels; crime and criminology tend to have an impact on it. Denny’s is a worldwide corporation that has franchises that have rented their names to continue to run the establishments as well as acquiring three different corporate level restaurants located in South Carolina. These restaurants tend to have higher security levels in their units rather than the franchises because they are allowed to choose the way that they run them just as long as the bills are paid and the name brand is not changed by any source. The number of restaurants out sourced is close to 600 different restaurants ranging from the Countries of New Zealand to Honduras to The United States, (Denny’s, 1953, p. 2). Denny’s is a chain of restaurants that take pride in aggressively pursuing innovation to support long-term, sustainable goals, (Denny’s, 1953, p. 5). Denny’s success lives by providing great food, great service every time and in order to achieve this goal their needs to be a high level of security. The security level should be assessed quarterly to find strengths and weaknesses; threats and vulnerabilities to all of their appropriate assets that would include the entire team all over the nation. Ultimately the risk assessment needs to be one of the first priorities that are taken to effectively run these restaurants with out failure. All of the units within Denny’s provide a digital security camera system that allows them to retrieve information as far back as six months prior to an incident. This allows the management staff to watch any kind of criminal moves that take place whether it is theft of an employee or a guest that may be visiting the restaurant. The security cameras also give the employees and guests’ assurance of safety, which is
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