Comparison Overview

Business Forward

VS

Public Affairs Council

Business Forward

1155 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC, US, 20036
Last Update: 2025-11-28
Between 700 and 749

Work with 270,000+ business leaders to fix Washington by briefing policymakers on how best to accelerate the economy and create jobs. Help entrepreneurs and small businesses go digital with Small Business Digital Alliance. With the help of more than 60 of the world's most respected companies, Business Forward is making it easier for more than 100,000 business leaders from across America to advise Washington on important policy issues. Business Forward is active in over 125 cities and has worked with more than 650 senior Administration officials, Members of Congress, mayors, and governors. To date, the organization has also brought more than 3,000 business leaders to the White House to brief the President's economic advisors. Business leaders who have participated in these briefings have seen their suggestions implemented in the Affordable Care Act, the Jobs Act, three trade agreements, and every one of the President's budgets. Many have also shared their recommendations with their representatives in Congress and through op-eds and interviews with local media. Ninety-eight out of 100 business leaders who have participated in a Business Forward briefing would be interested in participating in another one.

NAICS: 921
NAICS Definition: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
Employees: 18
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Public Affairs Council

2121 K St. N.W., Suite 900, Washington, DC, US, 20037
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 700 and 749

The Public Affairs Council is the leading nonpartisan, nonpolitical association for public affairs professionals worldwide. Launched in 1954, our mission is to advance the field of public affairs and to provide members with the executive education and expertise they need to succeed while maintaining the highest ethical standards. The Council’s staff professionals have direct experience in corporate and association public affairs management, lobbying, global public affairs, social media, corporate responsibility, campaign finance, grassroots advocacy, crisis communication and a host of related areas. Welcome to the Council’s LinkedIn page. While we encourage discussion on our social media sites, we wish to keep the conversation civil and professional. Please note that comments posted on this site do not reflect the opinion of the Council or its staff. By participating in this page, you agree that you will abide by applicable online laws, and acknowledge that the Council’s original content and intellectual property are protected under copyright laws. In addition, the following will usually be deleted: -Offensive, defamatory, inaccurate, unprofessional or irrelevant language. -Personal attacks about people or organizations. -Promotional posts and spam messages. -Personal information about others such as home addresses.

NAICS: 921
NAICS Definition: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
Employees: 75
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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Business Forward
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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Public Affairs 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
Compliance Summary
Business Forward
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Public Affairs Council
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Public Policy Offices Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Business Forward in 2025.

Incidents vs Public Policy Offices Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Public Affairs Council in 2025.

Incident History — Business Forward (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Business Forward cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Public Affairs Council (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Public Affairs Council cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Business Forward
Incidents

No Incident

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Public Affairs Council
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Public Affairs Council company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Business Forward company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, Public Affairs Council company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to Business Forward company.

In the current year, Public Affairs Council company and Business Forward company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Public Affairs Council company nor Business Forward company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Public Affairs Council company nor Business Forward company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Public Affairs Council company nor Business Forward company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Business Forward company nor Public Affairs Council company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither Business Forward company nor Public Affairs Council company has publicly disclosed detailed information about the number of their subsidiaries.

Public Affairs Council company employs more people globally than Business Forward company, reflecting its scale as a Public Policy Offices.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Business Forward nor Public Affairs Council 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