Comparison Overview

HSBC

VS

Northern Trust

HSBC

8 Canada Square, None, London, None, GB, E14 5HQ
Last Update: 2025-12-11
Between 800 and 849

Opening up a world of opportunity for our customers, investors, ourselves and the planet. We're a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Our network covers 58 countries and territories, and we’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up a world of opportunity for our customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda stock exchanges. To view our social media terms and conditions please visit the following webpage: http://www.hsbc.com/social-TandCs

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 186,976
Subsidiaries: 8
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
6
Attack type number
1

Northern Trust

50 S. La Salle, Chicago, Illinois, US, 60603
Last Update: 2025-12-09

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across five core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Join a Team That’s Made for Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. As of December 31 2024, Northern Trust had: $16.8 trillion assets under custody/administration $13.3 trillion in assets under custody $1.6 trillion in assets under management $156 billion in banking assets Stay connected with us: NT Careers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ntcareers Northern Trust Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/northerntrustcompany/

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 29,579
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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HSBC
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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Northern Trust
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
HSBC
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Northern Trust
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for HSBC in 2025.

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Northern Trust in 2025.

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

HSBC cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Northern Trust (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Northern Trust cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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HSBC
Incidents

Date Detected: 10/2018
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 12/2015
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 6/2015
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Mistakenly Sent Data
Blog: Blog
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Northern Trust
Incidents

Date Detected: 08/2022
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 5/2014
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Inadvertent Disclosure
Blog: Blog

FAQ

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

HSBC company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Northern Trust company.

In the current year, Northern Trust company and HSBC company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Northern Trust company nor HSBC company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Both Northern Trust company and HSBC company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

Neither Northern Trust company nor HSBC company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither HSBC company nor Northern Trust company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

HSBC company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Northern Trust company.

HSBC company employs more people globally than Northern Trust company, reflecting its scale as a Financial Services.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds HIPAA certification.

Neither HSBC nor Northern Trust holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions prior to 16.0.96 and 17.0.1 through 17.0.9 have a weak default password. By default, this is a 6 digit numeric value which can be brute forced. (This is the app_password parameter). Depending on local configuration, this password could be the extension, voicemail, user manager, DPMA or EPM phone admin password. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.96 and 17.0.10.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/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

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. In versions 2.8.11 and below, the MySQLWriteTool executes arbitrary SQL provided by the caller using PDO::prepare() + execute() without semantic restrictions. This is consistent with the name (“write tool”), but in an LLM/agent context it becomes a high-risk capability: prompt injection or indirect prompt manipulation can cause execution of destructive queries such as DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE, DELETE, ALTER, or privilege-related statements (subject to DB permissions). Deployments that expose an agent with MySQLWriteTool enabled to untrusted input and/or run the tool with a DB user that has broad privileges are impacted. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. Versions 2.8.11 and below use MySQLSelectTool, which is vulnerable to Read-Only Bypass. MySQLSelectTool is intended to be a read-only SQL tool (e.g., for LLM agent querying, however, validation based on the first keyword (e.g., SELECT) and a forbidden-keyword list does not block file-writing constructs such as INTO OUTFILE / INTO DUMPFILE. As a result, an attacker who can influence the tool input (e.g., via prompt injection through a public agent endpoint) may write arbitrary files to the DB server if the MySQL/MariaDB account has the FILE privilege and server configuration permits writes to a useful location (e.g., a web-accessible directory). This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.2
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Description

Okta Java Management SDK facilitates interactions with the Okta management API. In versions 11.0.0 through 20.0.0, race conditions may arise from concurrent requests using the ApiClient class. This could cause a status code or response header from one request’s response to influence another request’s response. This issue is fixed in version 20.0.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description

The Auth0 Next.js SDK is a library for implementing user authentication in Next.js applications. When using versions 4.11.0 through 4.11.2 and 4.12.0, simultaneous requests on the same client may result in improper lookups in the TokenRequestCache for the request results. This issue is fixed in versions 4.11.2 and 4.12.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N