Comparison Overview

Free

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Idea Cellular Ltd

Free

16, Rue de la Ville-l'Évêque, None, Paris, Île-de-France, FR, 75008
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 750 and 799

Trublion historique des Télécoms, Free reste un opérateur pas comme les autres. Nous continuons de nous distinguer de nos concurrents par nos produits, par notre politique tarifaire ou encore par le ton employé avec nos abonnés. Cette différence a aussi construit la grande entreprise que nous sommes devenus, qui réunit aujourd’hui plus de 11 500 collaborateurs. Elle a fait de nous un employeur… pas comme les autres.

NAICS: 517
NAICS Definition: Telecommunications
Employees: 12,154
Subsidiaries: 10
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Idea Cellular Ltd

5th Floor, WINDSOR, Off CST Road, Kalina, Santa Cruz East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN
Last Update: 2025-11-23
Between 750 and 799

Idea Cellular is an Aditya Birla Group Company, India's first truly multinational corporation. Idea is a pan-India integrated GSM operator offering 2G and 3G services, and has its own NLD and ILD operations, and ISP license. With revenue in excess of $4 billion; revenue market share of 18%; and subscriber base of over 150 million, Idea is India’s 3rd largest mobile operator. Idea ranks among the Top 10 country operators in the world with a traffic of over 1.5 billion minutes a day. Idea’s robust pan-India coverage is built on a network of over 100,000 2G and 3G cell sites, spread across over 55,000 towns in India. Using the latest in technology, Idea provides world-class service delivery through the most extensive network of customer touch points, comprising of nearly 4,500 exclusive Idea outlets, and over 7,000 call centre seats. Idea’s customer service delivery platform is ISO 9001:2008 certified, making it the only operator in the country to have this standard certification for all 22 service areas and the corporate office Idea won the ‘Best Brand Campaign’ at the esteemed World Communication Awards 2011. It also recently won 3 Awards at the ET Telecom Awards 2012, in the following categories Customer Experience Enhancement, Excellence in Marketing and Innovative products, respectively.

NAICS: 517
NAICS Definition: Telecommunications
Employees: 15,239
Subsidiaries: 4
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Free
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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Idea Cellular Ltd
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
Free
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Idea Cellular Ltd
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Telecommunications Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Free in 2025.

Incidents vs Telecommunications Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Idea Cellular Ltd in 2025.

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

Free cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Idea Cellular Ltd (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Idea Cellular Ltd cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Free
Incidents

No Incident

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Idea Cellular Ltd
Incidents

Date Detected: 10/2025
Type:Cyber Attack
Blog: Blog

FAQ

Idea Cellular Ltd company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Free company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Idea Cellular Ltd company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Free company has not reported any.

In the current year, Idea Cellular Ltd company has reported more cyber incidents than Free company.

Neither Idea Cellular Ltd company nor Free company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Idea Cellular Ltd company nor Free company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Idea Cellular Ltd company has reported targeted cyberattacks, while Free company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Free company nor Idea Cellular Ltd company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Free company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Idea Cellular Ltd company.

Idea Cellular Ltd company employs more people globally than Free company, reflecting its scale as a Telecommunications.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Free nor Idea Cellular Ltd 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