Last year’s Equifax security breach provides a valuable lesson for organizations seeking to protect digital assets and is worth examining closer for three reasons. With intruders accessing personally identifiable information such as social security and driver’s license numbers for over 100 million Americans across the country, it’s one of the most severe breaches of its kind. It’s the company’s second major security penetration of the year and the third in the last two years, attesting to the frequency of breaches today.
