Comparison Overview

Ricardo plc

VS

Averda

Ricardo plc

None, None, London, None, GB, W2 6LA
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 700 and 749

Click the 'Follow' button and explore careers at Ricardo on our 'Jobs' and 'Life' tabs and at careers.ricardo.com. Ricardo plc is a world-class environmental, engineering and strategic consulting company listed on the London Stock Exchange. With more than 100 years of engineering excellence, we provide exceptional levels of technical expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable solutions to solve our clients’ most complex strategic and operational challenges.

NAICS: 54162
NAICS Definition: Environmental Consulting Services
Employees: 2,955
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
1
Attack type number
1

Averda

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, AE
Last Update: 2025-11-21
Between 750 and 799

For over 35 years, Averda has been a global provider of integrated waste management services. Averda’s extensive service portfolio helps address a broad range of environmental needs, including cleaning and collecting, recovering and recycling, and diverting and disposing of all forms of solid and liquid waste for all industries. Averda’s numerous successful partnerships with both private and public sector organisations help preserve pedestrian, residential, commercial and industrial areas, has seen Averda become the largest service provider of its kind. With more than 14,000 employees serving millions of people every day, Averda has an extensive network covering Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Morocco, Republic of Congo, South Africa, India and the United Kingdom.

NAICS: 54162
NAICS Definition: Environmental Consulting Services
Employees: 10,001
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Ricardo plc
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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Averda
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
Ricardo plc
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Averda
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Environmental Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Ricardo plc in 2025.

Incidents vs Environmental Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Averda in 2025.

Incident History — Ricardo plc (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Ricardo plc cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Averda cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Ricardo plc
Incidents

Date Detected: 10/2023
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog
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Averda
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Averda company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Ricardo plc company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Ricardo plc company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Averda company has not reported any.

In the current year, Averda company and Ricardo plc company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Averda company nor Ricardo plc company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Ricardo plc company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Averda company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Averda company nor Ricardo plc company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Ricardo plc company nor Averda company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Ricardo plc company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Averda company.

Averda company employs more people globally than Ricardo plc company, reflecting its scale as a Environmental Services.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Ricardo plc nor Averda 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