Comparison Overview

Woolworths

VS

B&Q

Woolworths

93 Longmarket Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA, 8000
Last Update: 2025-11-27
Between 800 and 849

Woolworths offers a unique blend of food, fashion, beauty and homeware. Since 1931, we’ve found ways to do better, think bigger, inspire more, care more. As we continue to innovate and evolve, our commitment to quality will never change. Woolies Exceptional Quality™ is the driving force of every decision we make, product we sell and customer we serve. Our values inform what we stand for and underpin everything we do. And our duty to leave the world and our community in a better place than we found it means that sustainability, transparency and ethical practices sit at the heart of our business. Join us and our creative, innovative, passionate and dedicated 34 000 strong staff on our journey to be a leading retailer in the southern hemisphere.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 35,070
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

B&Q

undefined, Southampton, undefined, undefined, GB
Last Update: 2025-11-20

We are the UK’s leading home improvement and garden living retailer with over 300 stores throughout the UK and Ireland, offering great prices, with over 100,000 products available to order at diy.com for home delivery or click and collect. We launched the UK’s first home improvement marketplace in March 2022, adding additional choice for consumers. The marketplace offers a unique, integrated experience with in-store returns for many products and Click + Collect options being explored. Our team of more than 21,000 colleagues of all ages are respected nationwide for providing great home improvement help to customers. They’re the beating heart of B&Q and their iconic orange aprons are worn with pride. Every year, more than 20 million people improve their homes and make life better with B&Q, and every year the company achieves ever-higher standards for sustainable sourcing and supports our local communities, including funding B&Q Foundation grants and Shelter’s DIY Skills Advisors. For more information on our community initiatives visit diy.com/corporate/community To read our latest Build a Life project report visit diy.com/responsible-business. B&Q is part of Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement company, operating 2000 stores in 8 countries across Europe.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 12,936
Subsidiaries: 10
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Woolworths
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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B&Q
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
Woolworths
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
B&Q
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Woolworths in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for B&Q in 2025.

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

Woolworths cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — B&Q (X = Date, Y = Severity)

B&Q cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Woolworths
Incidents

No Incident

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B&Q
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Woolworths company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to B&Q company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Historically, B&Q company has disclosed a higher number of cyber incidents compared to Woolworths company.

In the current year, B&Q company and Woolworths company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither B&Q company nor Woolworths company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Neither B&Q company nor Woolworths company has reported experiencing a data breach publicly.

Neither B&Q company nor Woolworths company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Woolworths company nor B&Q company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

B&Q company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Woolworths company.

Woolworths company employs more people globally than B&Q company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Woolworths nor B&Q 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