Comparison Overview

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

VS

Southern Company

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

300 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, California, US, 94612
Last Update: 2025-12-19
Between 800 and 849

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Fast Facts * Service area stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east * 141,215 circuit miles of electric distribution lines and 18,616 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines * 42,141 miles of natural gas distribution pipelines and 6,438 miles of transportation pipelines * 5.1 million electric customer accounts * 4.3 million natural gas customer accounts

NAICS: 22
NAICS Definition: Utilities
Employees: 22,587
Subsidiaries: 2
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
1

Southern Company

30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd, None, Atlanta, GA, US, 30308
Last Update: 2025-12-17

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence. That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress. We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources. We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

NAICS: 22
NAICS Definition: Utilities
Employees: 11,751
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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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Southern Company
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
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Southern Company
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Utilities Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 2025.

Incidents vs Utilities Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Southern Company in 2025.

Incident History — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Pacific Gas and Electric Company cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Southern Company cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Incidents

Date Detected: 06/2016
Type:Data Leak
Attack Vector: Database Exposure
Blog: Blog
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Southern Company
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Southern Company company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Pacific Gas and Electric Company company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Southern Company company has not reported any.

In the current year, Southern Company company and Pacific Gas and Electric Company company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Southern Company company nor Pacific Gas and Electric Company company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor Pacific Gas and Electric Company company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor Pacific Gas and Electric Company company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company company nor Southern Company company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Southern Company company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Pacific Gas and Electric Company company.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company company employs more people globally than Southern Company company, reflecting its scale as a Utilities.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Pacific Gas and Electric Company nor Southern Company holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description

Weblate is a web based localization tool. In versions prior to 5.15.1, it was possible to overwrite Git configuration remotely and override some of its behavior. Version 5.15.1 fixes the issue.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.1
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and a denial of service (DoS) via crafted HTTP request.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of computing resources and a denial of service (DoS) of the Kibana process via a crafted HTTP request.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 6.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an unauthenticated user to embed a malicious script in content that will be served to web browsers causing cross-site scripting (XSS) (CAPEC-63) via a vulnerability a function handler in the Vega AST evaluator.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 6.1
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N