017. Equifax Breach: The Inside Story

In 2017 Equifax, one of the largest credit agencies in the world, became the victim of a major breach resulting in over 150 million records being stolen. In this podcast we speak to Graeme Payne, the CIO of Equifax during their breach about the lessons learnt and his personal experience. 0’48 Graeme Payne, guest introduction 3’48 The timeline of the Equifax breach 6’47 How incident planning can help businesses be better prepared for a breach 10’13 Announcing a breach – The lessons learnt from disclosing a major hack 16’04 How do you get the board more interested in security? 19’14 Is there a benefit for organisations to have a CISO? 26’03 How organisations can ensure they are covering all cybersecurity bases 27’33 Personal experience of a breach 37’16 The aftermath Download on iTunes: apple.co/2Ji61Ek Listening time: 44 minutes For more information, follow us on Twitter @secarma or @secarmalabs or email us at [email protected] Hosted by: Holly Grace Williams, Technical Director at Secarma Guest: Graeme Payne, Cybersecurity Executive Advisor and former CIO of Equifax