Comparison Overview

Ballarat City Council

VS

UK Home Office

Ballarat City Council

25 Armstrong Street South, Ballarat, Victoria, 3350, AU
Last Update: 2025-11-20

Ballarat is one of Australia’s largest inland cities and the third largest city in Victoria. Money flowed into Ballarat with the discovery of gold in the mid-19th Century. Today the city is renowned for its beautiful parks, broad tree-lined streetscapes, cultivated European gardens, and heritage architecture of national significance and international interest. The City of Ballarat municipality covers an area of 740 square kilometres and includes the outlying townships of Buninyong, Miners Rest, Learmonth, Lucas and Cardigan Village. It is part of an area of land under the traditional custodianship of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people and is bound by the surrounding Municipalities of Hepburn Shire to the north, Moorabool Shire to the east, Pyrenees Shire to the west and Golden Plains Shire to the south. Ballarat recorded a population of 103,964 people in 2017 (source: ABS Census, 2017). Due to being located centrally in Western Victoria, Ballarat services a large regional population. Ballarat offers premium job opportunities, world-class education (including two universities), affordable housing, exciting restaurants and retail options, accessible community and health services, a vibrant arts scene and a great lifestyle. For a list of open positions, please visit: http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/ac/careers.aspx

NAICS: 92
NAICS Definition: Public Administration
Employees: 659
Subsidiaries: 13
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
1
Attack type number
2

UK Home Office

2 Marsham Street, None, London, None, GB, SW1P 4DF
Last Update: 2025-11-20

At the Home Office, we help to ensure that the country is safe and secure. We’ve been looking after UK citizens since 1782. We are responsible for: - working on the problems caused by illegal drug use - shaping the alcohol strategy, policy and licensing conditions - keeping the United Kingdom safe from the threat of terrorism - reducing and preventing crime, and ensuring people feel safe in their homes and communities - securing the UK border and controlling immigration - considering applications to enter and stay in the UK - issuing passports and visas - supporting visible, responsible and accountable policing by empowering the public and freeing up the police to fight crime - fire prevention and rescue These organisations are all part of the Home Office: - Border Force - HM Passport Office (HMPO) - Immigration Enforcement - UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)

NAICS: 92
NAICS Definition: Public Administration
Employees: 16,852
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
1
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Ballarat City Council
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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UK Home Office
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
Ballarat City Council
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
UK Home Office
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Government Administration Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Ballarat City Council in 2025.

Incidents vs Government Administration Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for UK Home Office in 2025.

Incident History — Ballarat City Council (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Ballarat City Council cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — UK Home Office (X = Date, Y = Severity)

UK Home Office cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Ballarat City Council
Incidents

Date Detected: 12/2022
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized access
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 02/2018
Type:Data Leak
Attack Vector: Unintentional Data Disclosure
Blog: Blog
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UK Home Office
Incidents

Date Detected: 6/2010
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Human Error, Insecure Data Handling, Improper Access Controls, Accidental Publication
Motivation: Negligence, Operational Failures, Potential Espionage (for Afghan/PSNI breaches), Financial Gain (for dark web sales of leaked data)
Blog: Blog

FAQ

UK Home Office company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Ballarat City Council company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Ballarat City Council company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to UK Home Office company.

In the current year, UK Home Office company and Ballarat City Council company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither UK Home Office company nor Ballarat City Council company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Both UK Home Office company and Ballarat City Council company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

Neither UK Home Office company nor Ballarat City Council company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Ballarat City Council company nor UK Home Office company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Ballarat City Council company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to UK Home Office company.

UK Home Office company employs more people globally than Ballarat City Council company, reflecting its scale as a Government Administration.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Ballarat City Council nor UK Home Office 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