Comparison Overview

Guidepoint

VS

NielsenIQ

Guidepoint

675 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10010, US
Last Update: 2025-12-17
Between 650 and 699

Guidepoint is a research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we enable our clients to turn answers into action. Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts, and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. For more information, visit www.guidepoint.com.

NAICS: 519
NAICS Definition: Other Information Services
Employees: 4,257
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
1
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
1

NielsenIQ

200 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illinois, US, 60606
Last Update: 2025-12-17
Between 800 and 849

NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. NIQ combined with GfK in 2023, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. Today NIQ has operations in 95+ countries representing 97% of the world’s GDP. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™.

NAICS: 519
NAICS Definition: Other Information Services
Employees: 26,918
Subsidiaries: 11
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Guidepoint
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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NielsenIQ
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
Guidepoint
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
NielsenIQ
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Information Services Industry Average (This Year)

Guidepoint has 0.0% fewer incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.

Incidents vs Information Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for NielsenIQ in 2025.

Incident History — Guidepoint (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Guidepoint cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — NielsenIQ (X = Date, Y = Severity)

NielsenIQ cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Guidepoint
Incidents

Date Detected: 3/2025
Type:Ransomware
Attack Vector: Physical Mail
Motivation: Financial Gain
Blog: Blog
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NielsenIQ
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

NielsenIQ company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Guidepoint company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Guidepoint company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas NielsenIQ company has not reported any.

In the current year, Guidepoint company has reported more cyber incidents than NielsenIQ company.

Guidepoint company has confirmed experiencing a ransomware attack, while NielsenIQ company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither NielsenIQ company nor Guidepoint company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither NielsenIQ company nor Guidepoint company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Guidepoint company nor NielsenIQ company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

NielsenIQ company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Guidepoint company.

NielsenIQ company employs more people globally than Guidepoint company, reflecting its scale as a Information Services.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Guidepoint nor NielsenIQ 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