Comparison Overview

McLaren Health Care

VS

Northwestern Medicine

McLaren Health Care

1 McLaren Parkway, Grand Blanc, MI, US, 48439
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 0 and 549

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.

NAICS: 62
NAICS Definition: Health Care and Social Assistance
Employees: 9,073
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
2

Northwestern Medicine

251 E Huron St, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, US
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 750 and 799

Northwestern Medicine is the collaboration between Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine around a strategic vision to transform the future of healthcare. It encompasses the research, teaching, and patient care activities of the academic medical center. Sharing a commitment to superior quality, academic excellence and patient safety, the organizations within Northwestern Medicine comprise a combined workforce of more than 30,000 among clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty and medical students. Northwestern Medicine is comprised of more than 100 locations throughout the region, with five Northwestern Medicine hospitals ranked among “America's Best” by U.S. News & World Report, 2023 – 2024, our legacy of better medicine continues. What makes us better, makes you better.

NAICS: 62
NAICS Definition: Health Care and Social Assistance
Employees: 23,717
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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McLaren Health Care
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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Northwestern Medicine
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
McLaren Health Care
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Northwestern Medicine
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Hospitals and Health Care Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for McLaren Health Care in 2025.

Incidents vs Hospitals and Health Care Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Northwestern Medicine in 2025.

Incident History — McLaren Health Care (X = Date, Y = Severity)

McLaren Health Care cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Northwestern Medicine (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Northwestern Medicine cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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McLaren Health Care
Incidents

Date Detected: 8/2024
Type:Ransomware
Attack Vector: Ransomware
Motivation: Financial gain, Data theft
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 8/2024
Type:Ransomware
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 11/2023
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog
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Northwestern Medicine
Incidents

Date Detected: 4/2021
Type:Data Leak
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

FAQ

Northwestern Medicine company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to McLaren Health Care company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

McLaren Health Care company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Northwestern Medicine company.

In the current year, Northwestern Medicine company and McLaren Health Care company have not reported any cyber incidents.

McLaren Health Care company has confirmed experiencing a ransomware attack, while Northwestern Medicine company has not reported such incidents publicly.

McLaren Health Care company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Northwestern Medicine company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Northwestern Medicine company nor McLaren Health Care company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither McLaren Health Care company nor Northwestern Medicine company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Northwestern Medicine company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to McLaren Health Care company.

Northwestern Medicine company employs more people globally than McLaren Health Care company, reflecting its scale as a Hospitals and Health Care.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine holds HIPAA certification.

Neither McLaren Health Care nor Northwestern Medicine 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