Comparison Overview

Direct Energy

VS

Southern Company

Direct Energy

910 Louisiana St, B200, Houston, Texas, US, 77002
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 700 and 749

Direct Energy is one of North America's largest retail providers of electricity, natural gas and home and business energy-related services. We've been around for decades and are proud to serve our community with a variety of plans to meet the needs of our customers.

NAICS: 22
NAICS Definition: Utilities
Employees: 2,147
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
1

Southern Company

30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd, None, Atlanta, GA, US, 30308
Last Update: 2025-12-09

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence. That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress. We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources. We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

NAICS: 22
NAICS Definition: Utilities
Employees: 11,751
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Direct Energy
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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Southern Company
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
Direct Energy
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Southern Company
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Utilities Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Direct Energy in 2025.

Incidents vs Utilities Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Southern Company in 2025.

Incident History — Direct Energy (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Direct Energy cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Southern Company (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Southern Company cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Direct Energy
Incidents

Date Detected: 11/2020
Type:Ransomware
Attack Vector: Ransomware
Blog: Blog
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Southern Company
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Southern Company company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Direct Energy company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Direct Energy company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Southern Company company has not reported any.

In the current year, Southern Company company and Direct Energy company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Direct Energy company has confirmed experiencing a ransomware attack, while Southern Company company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor Direct Energy company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor Direct Energy company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Direct Energy company nor Southern Company company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Southern Company company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Direct Energy company.

Southern Company company employs more people globally than Direct Energy company, reflecting its scale as a Utilities.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Direct Energy nor Southern Company holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

WeGIA is an open source Web Manager for Institutions with a focus on Portuguese language users. Versions 3.5.4 and below contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the /WeGIA/html/geral/configurar_senhas.php endpoint. The application does not sanitize user-controlled data before rendering it inside the employee selection dropdown. The application retrieves employee names from the database and injects them directly into HTML <option> elements without proper escaping. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.5.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description

ZITADEL is an open-source identity infrastructure tool. Versions 4.0.0-rc.1 through 4.7.0 are vulnerable to DOM-Based XSS through the Zitadel V2 logout endpoint. The /logout endpoint insecurely routes to a value that is supplied in the post_logout_redirect GET parameter. As a result, unauthenticated remote attacker can execute malicious JS code on Zitadel users’ browsers. To carry out an attack, multiple user sessions need to be active in the same browser, however, account takeover is mitigated when using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Passwordless authentication. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.0
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description

ZITADEL is an open-source identity infrastructure tool. Versions 4.7.0 and below are vulnerable to an unauthenticated, full-read SSRF vulnerability. The ZITADEL Login UI (V2) treats the x-zitadel-forward-host header as a trusted fallback for all deployments, including self-hosted instances. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to force the server to make HTTP requests to arbitrary domains, such as internal addresses, and read the responses, enabling data exfiltration and bypassing network-segmentation controls. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Description

NiceGUI is a Python-based UI framework. Versions 3.3.1 and below are vulnerable to directory traversal through the App.add_media_files() function, which allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the server filesystem. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.0.

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

FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions are vulnerable to authentication bypass when the authentication type is set to "webserver." When providing an Authorization header with an arbitrary value, a session is associated with the target user regardless of valid credentials. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.44 and 17.0.23.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 9.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/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