Comparison Overview

Instagram

VS

Nielsen

Instagram

None
Last Update: 2025-11-22
Between 750 and 799

More than one billion people around the world use Instagram, and we’re proud to be bringing them closer to the people and things they love. Instagram inspires people to see the world differently, discover new interests, and express themselves. Since launching in 2010, our community has grown at a rapid pace. Our teams are growing fast, too, and we’re looking for talent across engineering, product management, design, research, analytics, technical program management, operations, and more. In addition to our headquarters in Menlo Park, we have thriving offices in New York City and San Francisco where teams are doing impactful work every day.

NAICS: 5112
NAICS Definition: Software Publishers
Employees: 43,423
Subsidiaries: 21
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
11
Attack type number
4

Nielsen

675 6th Ave, New York, NY, US, 10011
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 800 and 849

Nielsen shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future. Nielsen operates around the world in more than 55 countries. Learn more at http://nlsn.co/6006JMfty and connect with us on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).

NAICS: 5112
NAICS Definition: Software Publishers
Employees: 27,354
Subsidiaries: 1
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Instagram
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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Nielsen
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
Instagram
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Nielsen
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Software Development Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Instagram in 2025.

Incidents vs Software Development Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Nielsen in 2025.

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

Instagram cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Nielsen cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Instagram
Incidents

Date Detected: 11/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Contact Discovery Feature Abuse, Brute-Force Queries, Metadata Exploitation
Motivation: Data Harvesting, Targeted Phishing Preparation, Identity-Based Social Engineering, Fraud Enablement
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 11/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: abuse of platform feature, lack of rate limiting, automated enumeration
Motivation: research purposes, demonstration of vulnerability, potential for malicious exploitation by third parties
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 11/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Unsafe deserialization (Python pickle), ZeroMQ (ZMQ) misuse
Blog: Blog
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Nielsen
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

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

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

In the current year, Instagram company has reported more cyber incidents than Nielsen company.

Neither Nielsen company nor Instagram company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Instagram company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Nielsen company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Instagram company has reported targeted cyberattacks, while Nielsen company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Instagram company has disclosed at least one vulnerability, while Nielsen company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Instagram company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Nielsen company.

Instagram company employs more people globally than Nielsen company, reflecting its scale as a Software Development.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Instagram nor Nielsen 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