Comparison Overview

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

VS

Genentech

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., 50 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA, US, 02210
Last Update: 2025-11-26
Between 750 and 799

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases and have made significant advancements in multiple chronic, life-shortening genetic diseases — cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia — and continue to progress clinical and research programs in these diseases. We also have a robust clinical pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of modalities in other serious diseases where we have deep insight into causal human biology, including acute and neuropathic pain, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, IgA nephropathy, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, type 1 diabetes, myotonic dystrophy type 1 and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Our global HQ is in Boston, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices worldwide. Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. We have also earned a spot on TIME Most Influential Companies, TIME Best Inventions, and Fast Company Most Innovative Companies lists. Our research and medicines have received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the Prix Galien, the Scrip Award and the Breakthrough Prize awards. Read our community guidelines: https://www.vrtx.com/vertexs-community-guidelines/

NAICS: 541714
NAICS Definition: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
Employees: 6,124
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Genentech

1 Dna Way, South San Francisco, California, 94080, US
Last Update: 2025-11-20
Between 750 and 799

About Genentech We're passionate about finding solutions for people facing the world's most difficult-to-treat conditions. That is why we use cutting-edge science to create and deliver innovative medicines around the globe. To us, science is personal. Making a difference in the lives of millions starts when you make a change in yours. If you’d like to join our team, view our openings at gene.com/careers. Our patient resource center is dedicated to getting patients and caregivers to the right resources. You can reach them at 1 (877) GENENTECH (436-3683) Monday-Friday, 6am-5pm PST or [email protected]. Community Guidelines: 1. We want to foster positive conversation and diverse community around the issues we are passionate about. To that end, we remove profanity, content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that is aimed at private individuals, personal information meant to harass someone, and repeated unwanted messages. 2. Don’t mention any medicines by name — ours or anyone else’s. Because of the fair balance rules governing our industry, we cannot post any comments that reference any pharmaceutical brand, product, or service. Please do not mention any specific medicines by name, or include any links to third party sites in your comments. 3. This isn’t the place to report or discuss side effects. This site is not intended as a forum for reporting side effects experienced while taking a Genentech product. Instead, you should report any side effects to Genentech Drug Safety at 1-888-835-2555. You can also report side effects of any prescription product directly to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or by visiting www.FDA.gov/medwatch. 4. Don’t pitch your product or service. Please don't use our page as a place to promote your product or pitch your services. Please also avoid posting links to external sites. We reserve the right to remove any posts that are deemed promotional.

NAICS: 541714
NAICS Definition: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
Employees: 17,817
Subsidiaries: 50
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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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Genentech
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
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Genentech
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Biotechnology Research Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2025.

Incidents vs Biotechnology Research Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Genentech in 2025.

Incident History — Vertex Pharmaceuticals (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

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

Genentech cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Incidents

No Incident

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Genentech
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

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

Historically, Genentech company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to Vertex Pharmaceuticals company.

In the current year, Genentech company and Vertex Pharmaceuticals company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Genentech company nor Vertex Pharmaceuticals company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither Genentech company nor Vertex Pharmaceuticals company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither Genentech company nor Vertex Pharmaceuticals company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals company nor Genentech company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Genentech company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Vertex Pharmaceuticals company.

Genentech company employs more people globally than Vertex Pharmaceuticals company, reflecting its scale as a Biotechnology Research.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Vertex Pharmaceuticals nor Genentech 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