Comparison Overview

Nippon TV

VS

ESPN

Nippon TV

Higashi Shimbashi, 1-6-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP, 105-7444
Last Update: 2025-11-27

Nippon TV is Japan's leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse and ratings champion broadcaster, as well as owner of streaming giant Hulu in Japan. Over 90% of its content IP is fully owned by Nippon TV and the company has been active in bringing its content to the international market in the form of ready-mades programs, finished formats, and through co-production partnerships. One of the biggest successes for the nation's finest producer of all genres of programming is the Emmy Award-winning Dragons' Den/Shark Tank, a globally successful business show format that has 45 versions in more than 186 countries across all continents of the world. Additionally, their hit drama series Mother has also achieved global success as the most exported scripted format out of Asia, with its format sales to South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, France, Thailand, China, Indonesia, and Spain. The company is also known for its viewer engaging gameshow formats. BLOCK OUT is an action-packed game show format that has been adapted in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Spain, and Holland. The award-winning unscripted format Mute it!, and Sokkuri Sweets, have both been produced in the Netherlands. Sokkuri Sweets/Eye Candy is on The Roku Channel in the US, UK, and Canada. As evident by the company’s success, Nippon TV is leveraging its coveted platform to revolutionize digital media in an ever-changing industry to solidify its presence and brand as a global media leader.

NAICS: 515
NAICS Definition: Broadcasting (except Internet)
Employees: 247
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

ESPN

1 ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT, 06010, US
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 750 and 799

ESPN is the leading multiplatform sports entertainment brand that features seven U.S. television networks, the leading sports app, direct-to-consumer ESPN+, leading social and digital platforms, ESPN.com, ESPN Audio, endeavors on every continent around the world, and more. ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc. (an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) and 20 percent by Hearst. Based in Bristol, Conn., ESPN has approximately 3,800 employees (4,600 worldwide).

NAICS: 515
NAICS Definition: Broadcasting (except Internet)
Employees: 11,411
Subsidiaries: 65
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
7
Attack type number
2

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Nippon TV
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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ESPN
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
Nippon TV
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
ESPN
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Broadcast Media Production and Distribution Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Nippon TV in 2025.

Incidents vs Broadcast Media Production and Distribution Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for ESPN in 2025.

Incident History — Nippon TV (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Nippon TV cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

ESPN cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Nippon TV
Incidents

No Incident

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ESPN
Incidents

Date Detected: 6/2025
Type:Ransomware
Motivation: Financial Gain, Data Leak
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 5/2025
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Phishing, Malware
Motivation: Data exfiltration, Financial gain, Public disclosure
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 2/2025
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Malicious AI tool installation
Blog: Blog

FAQ

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

ESPN company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Nippon TV company has not reported any.

In the current year, ESPN company has reported more cyber incidents than Nippon TV company.

ESPN company has confirmed experiencing a ransomware attack, while Nippon TV company has not reported such incidents publicly.

ESPN company has disclosed at least one data breach, while Nippon TV company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither ESPN company nor Nippon TV company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Nippon TV company nor ESPN company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

ESPN company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Nippon TV company.

ESPN company employs more people globally than Nippon TV company, reflecting its scale as a Broadcast Media Production and Distribution.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Nippon TV nor ESPN 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