Comparison Overview

SEPHORA

VS

L Brands

SEPHORA

Neuilly sur Seine, Ile de France, FR, 92576
Last Update: 2025-12-09

Sephora is the world’s leading global prestige beauty retail brand. With over 56 000 talents across 35 markets, Sephora connects customers and beauty brands within the world’s most trusted and dynamic beauty community. We serve a highly engaged community of hundreds of millions of beauty followers across our global omnichannel network of more than 3 000 stores and iconic flagships, and our e-commerce and digital platforms, offering personalized and immersive seamless experiences across every touchpoint. With our curation of close to 500 brands and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most unique and diverse range of prestige beauty products, tailored to our customers’ needs from fragrance to make-up, haircare, skincare and beyond, as we constantly reimagine the world of prestige beauty. Since our inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, we have been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, we continue to break with convention to drive our mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 42,667
Subsidiaries: 101
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
8
Attack type number
2

L Brands

3 Limited Parkway, Columbus, OH, 43230, US
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 750 and 799

On August 2, 2021, L Brands (NYSE: LB) completed the separation of the Victoria’s Secret business into an independent, public company through a tax-free spin-off to L Brands shareholders. The new company, named Victoria’s Secret & Co., includes Victoria’s Secret Lingerie, PINK and Victoria’s Secret Beauty. Victoria’s Secret & Co. is a NYSE listed company trading under the ticker symbol VSCO. In conjunction with this announcement, L Brands changed its name to Bath & Body Works, Inc. and now trades under the ticker symbol BBWI. For more information on Bath & Body Works, Inc. or Victoria’s Secret & Co., please visit the corporate websites.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 10,154
Subsidiaries: 3
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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SEPHORA
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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L Brands
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
SEPHORA
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
L Brands
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for SEPHORA in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for L Brands in 2025.

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

SEPHORA cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — L Brands (X = Date, Y = Severity)

L Brands cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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SEPHORA
Incidents

Date Detected: 9/2025
Type:Breach
Motivation: National Security, Social Stability, Data Sovereignty, Economic Protection
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 9/2025
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2025
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog
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L Brands
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

SEPHORA company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to L Brands company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

SEPHORA company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas L Brands company has not reported any.

In the current year, SEPHORA company has reported more cyber incidents than L Brands company.

Neither L Brands company nor SEPHORA company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

SEPHORA company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other L Brands company has not reported such incidents publicly.

SEPHORA company has reported targeted cyberattacks, while L Brands company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither SEPHORA company nor L Brands company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

SEPHORA company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to L Brands company.

SEPHORA company employs more people globally than L Brands company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds HIPAA certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor L Brands holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

NXLog Agent before 6.11 can load a file specified by the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.1
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description

uriparser through 0.9.9 allows unbounded recursion and stack consumption, as demonstrated by ParseMustBeSegmentNzNc with large input containing many commas.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 2.9
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description

A vulnerability was detected in Mayan EDMS up to 4.10.1. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /authentication/. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 4.10.2 is sufficient to fix this issue. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor confirms that this is "[f]ixed in version 4.10.2". Furthermore, that "[b]ackports for older versions in process and will be out as soon as their respective CI pipelines complete."

Risk Information
cvss2
Base: 5.0
Severity: LOW
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
cvss3
Base: 4.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
cvss4
Base: 5.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/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

MJML through 4.18.0 allows mj-include directory traversal to test file existence and (in the type="css" case) read files. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12827.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.5
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
Description

A half-blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in kube-controller-manager when using the in-tree Portworx StorageClass. This vulnerability allows authorized users to leak arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints in the control plane’s host network (including link-local or loopback services).

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.8
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N