Comparison Overview

americanas s.a.

VS

SPAR South Africa

americanas s.a.

Rua Coelho e Castro 60, None, Rio de Janeiro, None, BR, 20081-060
Last Update: 2025-11-21

We are Americanas, one of the largest retailers in the country, with over 95 years of history. Our brand, loved by Brazilians, aims to simplify and improve the lives of families. The integration of more than 1,600 stores across all states, along with an e-commerce platform that complements the physical experience, allows us to implement an efficient multichannel sales strategy focused on cash generation and profitability. Based on our operations and mission, we value our people and are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of individuals, communities, and stakeholders, with a focus on reducing inequalities, generating jobs, promoting professional development, and fostering diversity. Here at Americanas, we combine unique assets: people united in the pursuit of operational excellence, millions of customers visiting our stores, website, and app every day, along with a fully integrated ecosystem aimed at providing the best shopping experience for our consumers.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 28,799
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

SPAR South Africa

22 Chancery Lane, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, ZA, 3610
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 800 and 849

There’s something different about shopping at SPAR, that’s because we’ve created a culture of caring and community to ensure our customers have a consistently enjoyable shopping experience in a uniquely friendly and family orientated store. Nothing means more to us than our valued customers and we believe in going the extra mile to give them the best. From sourcing the finest products to providing willing and efficient staff who take a personal interest in our customers’ needs. In the 1960’s a group made up of 8 wholesalers were given exclusive rights to the SPAR name and brand in 1963 and serviced 500 small retailers. Through business acquisitions and organic growth, today the SPAR Group Ltd operates 6 distribution centres and 1 Build it distribution centre (building materials) and 1 pharmaceutical distribution centre (S BUYS), supplying goods and services to more than 2,000 SPAR stores across Southern Africa.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 20,094
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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americanas s.a.
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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SPAR South Africa
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
americanas s.a.
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
SPAR South Africa
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for americanas s.a. in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for SPAR South Africa in 2025.

Incident History — americanas s.a. (X = Date, Y = Severity)

americanas s.a. cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — SPAR South Africa (X = Date, Y = Severity)

SPAR South Africa cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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americanas s.a.
Incidents

No Incident

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SPAR South Africa
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

SPAR South Africa company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to americanas s.a. company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, SPAR South Africa company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to americanas s.a. company.

In the current year, SPAR South Africa company and americanas s.a. company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither SPAR South Africa company nor americanas s.a. company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither SPAR South Africa company nor americanas s.a. company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither SPAR South Africa company nor americanas s.a. company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither americanas s.a. company nor SPAR South Africa company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither americanas s.a. company nor SPAR South Africa company has publicly disclosed detailed information about the number of their subsidiaries.

americanas s.a. company employs more people globally than SPAR South Africa company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds HIPAA certification.

Neither americanas s.a. nor SPAR South Africa holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1, there is a XSRF token leakage via protocol-relative URLs in angular HTTP clients. The vulnerability is a Credential Leak by App Logic that leads to the unauthorized disclosure of the Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) token to an attacker-controlled domain. Angular's HttpClient has a built-in XSRF protection mechanism that works by checking if a request URL starts with a protocol (http:// or https://) to determine if it is cross-origin. If the URL starts with protocol-relative URL (//), it is incorrectly treated as a same-origin request, and the XSRF token is automatically added to the X-XSRF-TOKEN header. This issue has been patched in versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1. A workaround for this issue involves avoiding using protocol-relative URLs (URLs starting with //) in HttpClient requests. All backend communication URLs should be hardcoded as relative paths (starting with a single /) or fully qualified, trusted absolute URLs.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 7.7
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. An Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft deep ASN.1 structures that trigger unbounded recursive parsing. This leads to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via stack exhaustion when parsing untrusted DER inputs. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.2.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 8.7
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. An Integer Overflow vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft ASN.1 structures containing OIDs with oversized arcs. These arcs may be decoded as smaller, trusted OIDs due to 32-bit bitwise truncation, enabling the bypass of downstream OID-based security decisions. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.2.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. Prior to versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2, working with large buffers in Lua scripts can lead to a stack overflow. Users of Lua rules and output scripts may be affected when working with large buffers. This includes a rule passing a large buffer to a Lua script. This issue has been patched in versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2. A workaround for this issue involves disabling Lua rules and output scripts, or making sure limits, such as stream.depth.reassembly and HTTP response body limits (response-body-limit), are set to less than half the stack size.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 7.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions from 8.0.0 to before 8.0.2, a NULL dereference can occur when the entropy keyword is used in conjunction with base64_data. This issue has been patched in version 8.0.2. A workaround involves disabling rules that use entropy in conjunction with base64_data.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 7.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H