017. Equifax Breach: The Inside Story Hacked Off

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
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Hosted by: Holly Grace Williams, Technical Director at Secarma
Guest: Graeme Payne, Cybersecurity Executive Advisor and former CIO of Equifax