Comparison Overview

Norfolk Southern

VS

Amtrak

Norfolk Southern

650 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, US
Last Update: 2025-11-27

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that power the U.S. economy. Today, we operate a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network across 19,000 route miles and have the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern United States. Norfolk Southern serves a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Committed to furthering sustainability, we help our customers avoid 15 million tons of annual carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Our railroaders deliver more than 7 million carloads each year, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Visit our website to learn more about transporting your company’s goods with Norfolk Southern and to calculate how you can decarbonize your supply chain through freight rail.

NAICS: 482
NAICS Definition: Rail Transportation
Employees: 9,535
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Amtrak

1 Massachusetts Ave NW, None, Washington, District of Columbia, US, 20002
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 700 and 749

Moving America Where it wants to go. We are not just a railroad; we are a company that moves people. With 21,000 route miles in 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces, Amtrak operates more than 300 trains each day – at speeds up to 150 mph – to more than 500 destinations. We move customers where they want to go by responding to their wants and needs. And by doing so, we connect communities, economies and families that make our nation great. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the Unites States. Our mission is to provide safe transportation in the most efficient way possible, while ensuring that our customers get a consistent, high quality experience. Carrying out this mission, and ultimately achieving our vision, hinges on our employees. The future rides with us. Amtrak is an equal employment opportunity employer.

NAICS: 482
NAICS Definition: Rail Transportation
Employees: 13,573
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
3
Attack type number
2

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Norfolk Southern
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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Amtrak
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
Norfolk Southern
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Amtrak
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Rail Transportation Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Norfolk Southern in 2025.

Incidents vs Rail Transportation Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Amtrak in 2025.

Incident History — Norfolk Southern (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Norfolk Southern cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Amtrak cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Norfolk Southern
Incidents

No Incident

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Amtrak
Incidents

Date Detected: 7/2020
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: External System Breach (Hacking)
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2020
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 4/2020
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

FAQ

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

Amtrak company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Norfolk Southern company has not reported any.

In the current year, Amtrak company and Norfolk Southern company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Amtrak company nor Norfolk Southern company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Amtrak company has disclosed at least one data breach, while Norfolk Southern company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Amtrak company nor Norfolk Southern company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Norfolk Southern company nor Amtrak company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither Norfolk Southern company nor Amtrak company has publicly disclosed detailed information about the number of their subsidiaries.

Amtrak company employs more people globally than Norfolk Southern company, reflecting its scale as a Rail Transportation.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor Amtrak 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