Comparison Overview

Sparkasse

VS

Block

Sparkasse

Friedrichstraße 50, Berlin, BE, DE, 10117
Last Update: 2025-11-20

Sparkassen: Nah, präsent und persönlich Als verlässliche Hausbank stehen wir immer und überall an der Seite unserer Kund:innen und Mitarbeitenden. Mit den Sparkassen können Sie auf exzellente Beratung und einen echten Finanzverbund zählen, der nicht nur Ihre persönlichen Finanzen, sondern auch die finanziellen Belange des Unternehmens berücksichtigt. Ob im Tagesgeschäft, bei großen Investitionsvorhaben oder bei der erfolgreichen Abwicklung von In- und Auslandsgeschäften: Wir schaffen Lösungen für den Unternehmenserfolg und unterstützen als verlässliche Arbeitgeberin unsere Mitarbeitenden.

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 30,819
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Block

None, None, Oakland, California, US, None
Last Update: 2025-11-21
Between 700 and 749

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 12,798
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Sparkasse
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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Block
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
Sparkasse
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Block
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Sparkasse in 2025.

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Block in 2025.

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

Sparkasse cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Block cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Sparkasse
Incidents

No Incident

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Block
Incidents

Date Detected: 12/2021
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Motivation: Unknown
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 12/2021
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Insider Threat (former employee)
Motivation: Financial Gain (alleged by shareholders), Unauthorized Data Access
Blog: Blog

FAQ

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

Block company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Sparkasse company has not reported any.

In the current year, Block company and Sparkasse company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Block company nor Sparkasse company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Block company has disclosed at least one data breach, while Sparkasse company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Block company nor Sparkasse company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Sparkasse company nor Block company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither Sparkasse company nor Block company has publicly disclosed detailed information about the number of their subsidiaries.

Sparkasse company employs more people globally than Block company, reflecting its scale as a Financial Services.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Sparkasse nor Block 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