Comparison Overview

SPAR South Africa

VS

Post Office Ltd

SPAR South Africa

22 Chancery Lane, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, ZA, 3610
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 800 and 849

There’s something different about shopping at SPAR, that’s because we’ve created a culture of caring and community to ensure our customers have a consistently enjoyable shopping experience in a uniquely friendly and family orientated store. Nothing means more to us than our valued customers and we believe in going the extra mile to give them the best. From sourcing the finest products to providing willing and efficient staff who take a personal interest in our customers’ needs. In the 1960’s a group made up of 8 wholesalers were given exclusive rights to the SPAR name and brand in 1963 and serviced 500 small retailers. Through business acquisitions and organic growth, today the SPAR Group Ltd operates 6 distribution centres and 1 Build it distribution centre (building materials) and 1 pharmaceutical distribution centre (S BUYS), supplying goods and services to more than 2,000 SPAR stores across Southern Africa.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 20,094
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Post Office Ltd

100 Wood Street, London, England, EC2V 7ER, GB
Last Update: 2025-11-25
Between 750 and 799

We’ve come a long way since it all started over 380 years ago. We’ve built up a network of 11,500 branches across the country. To give you a sense of how big that is, we’ve got more branches than the four biggest banks in the UK put together. Or put simply, we’re the largest retail network in the UK. So we’re there for our customers, wherever they are. But our biggest branch by far is our website, which gets nearly 1 million visitors a week, so we’re building on our digital strategy too. As you can imagine, a business this big has lots of opportunities in lots of different areas. So we’re always looking out for enthusiastic, ambitious and customer-focused people to join us. And we’re striving to become “simpler to run, better for customers and a great place to work”, so innovation is really important. We’re confident the changes we make will be for the best, benefiting both our people and our customers. Social Media Policy: https://bit.ly/3gwSgEl

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 15,867
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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SPAR South Africa
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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Post Office Ltd
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
SPAR South Africa
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Post Office Ltd
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for SPAR South Africa in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Post Office Ltd in 2025.

Incident History — SPAR South Africa (X = Date, Y = Severity)

SPAR South Africa cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Post Office Ltd (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Post Office Ltd cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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SPAR South Africa
Incidents

No Incident

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Post Office Ltd
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

SPAR South Africa company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Post Office Ltd company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, Post Office Ltd company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to SPAR South Africa company.

In the current year, Post Office Ltd company and SPAR South Africa company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Post Office Ltd company nor SPAR South Africa company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Post Office Ltd company nor SPAR South Africa company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Post Office Ltd company nor SPAR South Africa company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither SPAR South Africa company nor Post Office Ltd company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Neither SPAR South Africa company nor Post Office Ltd company has publicly disclosed detailed information about the number of their subsidiaries.

SPAR South Africa company employs more people globally than Post Office Ltd company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd holds HIPAA certification.

Neither SPAR South Africa nor Post Office Ltd 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