Key Cyber Security Takeaways from the Equifax Breach Report

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs recently released an investigations report containing the results of the Committee’s look into the root causes of the massive Equifax breach in 2017. The cyber security incident involved the compromise of the personal information of over 145 million Americans. After reading this report, one might think the root cause of the breach is quite simply the failure of Equifax to patch its systems properly. The root cause is actually much deeper. Let’s take a look.