Comparison Overview

PT PLN (Persero)

VS

Southern Company

PT PLN (Persero)

Jl. Trunojoyo Blok M I/135, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta, 12160, ID
Last Update: 2025-12-17
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Between 750 and 799
http://www.pln.co.id

Indonesia State Electricity Corporation PLN has a long history in electricity industry of Indonesia. As the sole provider of electricity in Indonesia, PLN is striving to increase quality of services to all Indonesian. In 1972, in accordance with Government Regulation No.17, the State-owned Electricity Company was enacted as a State-owned General Electricity Company and as PKUK responsible to provide electricity to meet public needs. While the Government policy was giving opportunity to the Private Sectors to focus on the provision of electricity, the status of PLN was changed from a General Company to Corporation’ as well as PKUK in providing electricity for public needs until the present. Throughout the 75 years of journey, PT PLN (Persero) has succeeded in becoming one of the companies with the largest assets in Indonesia of IDR 1,589 Trillion (PT PLN (Persero) Financial Report 2020 Audited).

NAICS: 22
NAICS Definition: Utilities
Employees: 22,729
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0
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Southern Company

30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd, None, Atlanta, GA, US, 30308
Last Update: 2025-12-17
Between 800 and 849
http://www.southerncompany.com

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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PT PLN (Persero)
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ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
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SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
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SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
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GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
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PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
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HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Southern Company
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ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
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SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
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SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
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GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
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PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
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HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
PT PLN (Persero)
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 PT PLN (Persero) in 2025.

Incidents vs Utilities Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Southern Company in 2025.

Incident History — PT PLN (Persero) (X = Date, Y = Severity)

PT PLN (Persero) 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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PT PLN (Persero)
Incidents

No Incident

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Southern Company
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Southern Company company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to PT PLN (Persero) company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, Southern Company company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to PT PLN (Persero) company.

In the current year, Southern Company company and PT PLN (Persero) company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Southern Company company nor PT PLN (Persero) company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor PT PLN (Persero) company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Southern Company company nor PT PLN (Persero) company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) company nor Southern Company company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Southern Company company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to PT PLN (Persero) company.

PT PLN (Persero) company employs more people globally than Southern Company company, reflecting its scale as a Utilities.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) nor Southern Company holds HIPAA certification.

Neither PT PLN (Persero) 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.

Published
Date
2025-12-18
Updated
Date
2025-12-18
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
References
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.

Published
Date
2025-12-18
Updated
Date
2025-12-18
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
References
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.

Published
Date
2025-12-18
Updated
Date
2025-12-18
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
References
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.

Published
Date
2025-12-18
Updated
Date
2025-12-18
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
References
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.

Published
Date
2025-12-18
Updated
Date
2025-12-18
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
References