Comparison Overview

Norfolk Southern

VS

CSX

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

CSX

500 Water Street, None, Jacksonville, FL, US, 32202
Last Update: 2025-11-25
Between 800 and 849

CSX is a company on the move. As the nation’s best run railroad, we’re redefining freight rail with a progressive vision and real results – setting new industry performance standards and building a force of highly skilled professionals who are energized to help us move the economy safely, efficiently and reliably. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., the CSX transportation network extends about 21,000 route miles, connecting customers to major ports, distribution centers, and every major metropolitan area in the eastern United States. When customers need comprehensive rail solutions, CSX is powered to perform.

NAICS: 482
NAICS Definition: Rail Transportation
Employees: 12,763
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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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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CSX
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
CSX
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 CSX in 2025.

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

Norfolk Southern cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

CSX 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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CSX
Incidents

Date Detected: 12/2020
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Vulnerability Exploitation
Blog: Blog

FAQ

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

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

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

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

Neither CSX company nor Norfolk Southern company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

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

CSX company has disclosed at least one vulnerability, while Norfolk Southern company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor CSX holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

CSX company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Norfolk Southern company.

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

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

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

Neither Norfolk Southern nor CSX holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor CSX holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor CSX holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Norfolk Southern nor CSX 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