Comparison Overview

Interactive Brokers

VS

S&P Global

Interactive Brokers

2 Pickwick Plaza, None, Greenwich, Connecticut, US, 06830
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 750 and 799

Rated #1 Active Traders and #1 International Trading in 2025 by StockBrokers.com. Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR) and its affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and forecast contracts around the clock on over 160 markets in numerous countries and currencies from a single unified platform to clients worldwide. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our four decades of focus on technology and automation have enabled us to equip our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios. We strive to provide our clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments. Interactive Brokers has consistently earned recognition as a top broker, garnering multiple awards and accolades from respected industry sources such as Barron's, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and many others. Interactive Brokers Group’s consolidated equity capital exceeds $17 billion. Throughout its history, the company’s mission has remained unchanged: Create technology to provide liquidity on better terms. Compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools. Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of NYSE, FINRA, SIPC. For more information, visit: ibkr.com.

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 3,263
Subsidiaries: 3
12-month incidents
1
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
1

S&P Global

55 Water Street, New York, NY, 10041, US
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 800 and 849

S&P Global provides governments, businesses, and individuals with market data, expertise, and technology solutions for confident decision-making. Our services span from global energy solutions to sustainable finance solutions. From helping our customers perform investment analysis to guiding them through sustainability and energy transition across supply chains, our solutions help unlock new opportunities and solve challenges. We are widely sought after by many of the world’s leading organizations to provide credit ratings, competitive benchmarking and data driven analytics in global capital markets, commodity, and automotive markets. Our divisions include S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Commodity Insights, S&P Global Mobility, S&P Dow Jones Indices, and the renowned S&P 500 index. Additionally, our S&P Global Sustainable1 brings sustainability benchmarking, analytics, and evaluations together, to help customers achieve their sustainability goals. See the latest research & insights at www.spglobal.com

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 42,945
Subsidiaries: 24
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Interactive Brokers
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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S&P Global
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
Interactive Brokers
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
S&P Global
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

Interactive Brokers has 28.21% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for S&P Global in 2025.

Incident History — Interactive Brokers (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Interactive Brokers cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — S&P Global (X = Date, Y = Severity)

S&P Global cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Interactive Brokers
Incidents

Date Detected: 4/2025
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 10/2023
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Business Email Compromise
Blog: Blog
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S&P Global
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

S&P Global company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Interactive Brokers company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Interactive Brokers company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas S&P Global company has not reported any.

In the current year, Interactive Brokers company has reported more cyber incidents than S&P Global company.

Neither S&P Global company nor Interactive Brokers company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Interactive Brokers company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other S&P Global company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither S&P Global company nor Interactive Brokers company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Interactive Brokers company nor S&P Global company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

S&P Global company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Interactive Brokers company.

S&P Global company employs more people globally than Interactive Brokers company, reflecting its scale as a Financial Services.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Interactive Brokers nor S&P Global 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