Comparison Overview

ETH Zürich

VS

University of the Witwatersrand

ETH Zürich

Rämistrasse 101, Zürich, CH, 8092
Last Update: 2025-12-17
Between 800 and 849

ETH Zurich – Where the future begins Freedom and individual responsibility, entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness: ETH Zurich stands on a bedrock of true Swiss values. Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge. At ETH Zurich, students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which in-spires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. Some 530 professors teach around 20,500 students – including 4,100 doctoral students – from over 120 countries. Their collective research embraces many disciplines: natural sciences and engineering scienc-es, architecture, mathematics, system-oriented natural sciences, as well as management and social sci-ences. The results and innovations produced by ETH researchers are channelled into some of Switzer-land’s most high-tech sectors: from computer science through to micro- and nanotechnology and cutting-edge medicine. Every year ETH registers around 90 patents and 200 inventions on average. Since 1996, the university has produced a total of 380 commercial spin-offs. ETH also has an excellent reputation in scientific circles: 21 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched here, and in international league tables ETH Zurich regularly ranks as one of the world’s top universities.

NAICS: 6113
NAICS Definition: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Employees: 11,625
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

University of the Witwatersrand

1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, Johannesburg, gauteng, ZA, 2050
Last Update: 2025-12-17
Between 750 and 799

Wits is strategically located in Johannesburg, a world class city, with countless opportunities for students and staff to engage with and present solutions that will contribute to our country's knowledge-base and build our future. With more than 200 000 graduates in its 98-year history, Wits has and will continue to make its mark nationally and internationally.   Wits scholars excel globally in areas of research that directly affect society and the future of our planet, including climate change, energy, technology and health. Wits has been ranked in the 201 – 250 band in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2021. We are also ranked as the best university in Africa in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities where it has been placed in the 200 – 300 band.

NAICS: 6113
NAICS Definition: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Employees: 10,369
Subsidiaries: 2
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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ETH Zürich
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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University of the Witwatersrand
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
ETH Zürich
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
University of the Witwatersrand
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Higher Education Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for ETH Zürich in 2025.

Incidents vs Higher Education Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for University of the Witwatersrand in 2025.

Incident History — ETH Zürich (X = Date, Y = Severity)

ETH Zürich cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — University of the Witwatersrand (X = Date, Y = Severity)

University of the Witwatersrand cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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ETH Zürich
Incidents

No Incident

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University of the Witwatersrand
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

ETH Zürich company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to University of the Witwatersrand company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, University of the Witwatersrand company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to ETH Zürich company.

In the current year, University of the Witwatersrand company and ETH Zürich company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither University of the Witwatersrand company nor ETH Zürich company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither University of the Witwatersrand company nor ETH Zürich company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither University of the Witwatersrand company nor ETH Zürich company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither ETH Zürich company nor University of the Witwatersrand company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

University of the Witwatersrand company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to ETH Zürich company.

ETH Zürich company employs more people globally than University of the Witwatersrand company, reflecting its scale as a Higher Education.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds HIPAA certification.

Neither ETH Zürich nor University of the Witwatersrand holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

Versa SASE Client for Windows versions released between 7.8.7 and 7.9.4 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the audit log export functionality. The client communicates user-controlled file paths to a privileged service, which performs file system operations without impersonating the requesting user. Due to improper privilege handling and a time-of-check time-of-use race condition combined with symbolic link and mount point manipulation, a local authenticated attacker can coerce the service into deleting arbitrary directories with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to delete protected system folders such as C:\\Config.msi and subsequently achieve execution as NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM via MSI rollback techniques.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 8.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/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
Description

The WP JobHunt plugin for WordPress, used by the JobCareer theme, is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'cs_update_application_status_callback' function in all versions up to, and including, 7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Candidate-level access and above, to inject cross-site scripting into the 'status' parameter of applied jobs for any user.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 7.6
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Description

The WP JobHunt plugin for WordPress, used by the JobCareer theme, is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 7.7 via the 'cs_update_application_status_callback' due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Candidate-level access and above, to send a site-generated email with injected HTML to any user.

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

The FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `thegem_te_search` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.32.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability requires TheGem theme (premium) to be installed with Header Builder mode enabled, and the FiboSearch "Replace search bars" option enabled for TheGem integration.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.11.0 via the ajax_get_members function. This is due to the use of a predictable low-entropy token (5 hex characters derived from md5 of post ID) to identify member directories and insufficient authorization checks on the unauthenticated AJAX endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including usernames, display names, user roles (including administrator accounts), profile URLs, and user IDs by enumerating predictable directory_id values or brute-forcing the small 16^5 token space.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N