Corporate Security

Equifax Security

Equifax is committed to being an industry leader in security. With our approximately $3 billion global security and technology transformation, we have built a cloud-native, AI-ready infrastructure unmatched in the industry — enabling us to rapidly develop solutions that are faster, more reliable, more powerful, and more secure than ever before. 

 

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Following our 2017 cybersecurity incident, Equifax has reinvented every facet of our infrastructure and corporate culture. Our teams have turned a historical challenge into an industry-leading standard for transparency, systemic resilience, and cloud-native security.

 

Security Priorities at Equifax

Security is built into the DNA of our company. We continuously reinforce our security-first culture by ensuring that all employees understand their role in protecting data and systems as well as the importance of treating security as personal priority. We believe that more communication, more collaboration, and more transparency enables stronger security.

Expectations are set by the tone at the top, with our Board of Directors actively engaged in the oversight of our security program, and every employee and Board member receiving annual security training. All bonus-eligible employees have a security performance measure included in their annual incentive compensation calculation — further underscoring the vital role that security plays in our business.

We’ve turned security into a point of strength and a competitive advantage at Equifax. Scaling our defenses has enabled the secure launch of continuous New Product Innovations, many of which have achieved third-party certification or been authorized by the U.S. government. Our global commitment to security transparency has helped thousands of users across 70 countries leverage our public security controls framework to strengthen their own defenses.

Combining our security architecture and technology architecture functions has helped unite builders and defenders in order to drive consistent, automated security solutions across the globe. This shared foundation delivers operational speed without compromising security.

We partner directly with security vendors to shape product and service enhancements that not only secure Equifax environments, but others as well. This strategy of co-innovation extends into the public sector. Our experts have partnered with law enforcement and government agencies in multiple countries to advance AI security education and national standardization frameworks.

Security Benchmarks

We rely on objective, third-party analysis to validate the strength of our defenses.

What is the Security Maturity of Equifax?

An organization’s security maturity represents how well it can adapt to cyber threats and manage risk over time. We partner with a leading global research and advisory firm to conduct an objective in-depth analysis of the maturity of our entire security program.


Our Security maturity level has outperformed all major industry benchmarks for the last six years, with a 2025 National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) score of 4.4 — an increase from last year’s score of 4.3.

Security Maturity graph showing Equifax outperforming Banking, Retail, Professional Services, and Government benchmarks.

Industry Sector / Entity Performance Metric Placement
Equifax Corporate Security Program 4.4 NIST CSF Score (Highest performing tier; 6 consecutive years outperforming benchmarks)
Banking and Financial Services Industry Benchmark Indexed below Equifax 4.4 performance threshold
Retail Industry Benchmark Indexed below Banking and Financial Services
Professional Services Industry Benchmark Indexed below Retail sector constraints
Government Sector Benchmark Lowest scoring baseline segment in comparative analysis

What is the Security Posture of Equifax?

An organization’s security posture is its readiness and ability to identify, respond to, and recover from security threats and risks. A leading cybersecurity reporting service continuously monitors the posture of our security program and assesses the risk of our supply chain ecosystem.


Our security posture score exceeded Technology and Financial Services industry averages for a fifth consecutive year.

Security Posture rating chart showing Equifax in the Advanced category, outperforming Intermediate and Basic industry average tiers.

Performance Classification Tier Equifax Placement Status
Advanced Tier (Highest Category) Equifax Position (Exceeded Technology and Financial Services industry averages for a fifth consecutive year)
Intermediate Tier Exceeded by Equifax baseline defense parameters
Basic Tier Lowest performance tier tracking entry-level supply chain ecosystem risks

Approach to AI and Security

AI has fundamentally changed the way we operate. Leveraging our cloud-native infrastructure, AI is streamlining our Security Operations Center and accelerating other routine tasks.

 

Using AI to Enhance Security

Deploying AI as a strategic force multiplier has improved our ability to triage and remediate threats, while accelerating the critical security decisions that drive business delivery. We

  • Use agentic AI to handle routine tasks, freeing analysts for complex threats
  • Remove friction for the business with custom AI assistants 
  • Use our AI-powered threat engine to validate Equifax defenses, ensuring our shield is always calibrated to the current threat environment
  • Analyze and handle hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities using AI — automatically writing code to fix the issue without slowing down product delivery

As we’ve embraced AI to drive innovation, we continue to prioritize Security. Equifax has implemented the necessary guardrails — from automated content safety filters to secure coding frameworks — that enable our teams to adopt powerful new tools without exposing the enterprise to unmanaged risk.

 

Securing the Business’s Use of AI

Our security architecture includes an agnostic control layer that sits between our employees and the AI. We’ve also designed protocols for every employee to become an AI builder by securely deploying GenAI tools to our workforce.  

 

Defending Against AI Threats

As criminals and other bad-actors have adopted AI-enabled tools, we’ve recalibrated our defenses to detect and protect against those threats. From impersonations to other complex attacks, our controls have remained effective against a new generation of AI-enabled fraud and cyber attacks.

Our security teams remain vigilant against an evolving threat landscape:

  • Leveraging adaptive defenses to block evasive malware attackers use in “polymorphic” attacks — code that constantly rewrites itself to bypass traditional filters
  • Neutralizing credential-scraping campaigns in real-time to prevent bot swarms from scraping data or testing stolen credentials in our consumer portals
  • Intercepting and inoculating against deepfake fraud attempts
 

Key Security Figures

By integrating deep expertise with real-time automated defenses, we have built a resilient, high-scale security architecture that protects our data and systems against millions of threats every day.

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19.8+M Cyber threats blocked each day — nearly 230 hostile attempts every second, a 30% increase from 2024

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240,000+ Simulations launched to test our global workforce on diverse security scenarios

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400+ Dedicated cybersecurity professionals protecting consumer data around the clock

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330+ Automated cloud security checks monitored in real time, fueling faster threat response and near-instant posture awareness

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52 Certifications and authorizations obtained from outside auditors, validating our depth and rigor

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6 Consecutive years achieving a Security Maturity score that outperforms all major industry benchmarks

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FedRAMP Ready for Agency Authorization

Strategic Security Focus

Security vulnerabilities demand more than just standard, static safeguards; they require a relentless focus and vigilance. As threats grow more sophisticated, so does our defense. We are not only maintaining our emphasis on security, but continuing to help our customers, partners and consumers strengthen their own cybersecurity postures for the benefit of the industry at large.

 

Securing Identities

By eliminating credentials for our entire workforce, we’ve proven that passwordless is possible. The next phase includes passwordless logins for B2B customers — neutralizing credential stuffing attacks while removing friction for our customers and partners.

This work includes non-human accounts. As we leverage more AI tools, we employ the same rigorous verification to machines to prevent hackers from using a computer bot as a secret backdoor into our systems.

 

Scaling Agentic Governance

As AI agents accelerate our ability to automate tasks, we’re enforcing “policy-as-code” by writing safety, data privacy and compliance rules directly into the agentic code itself. We are also automating the process to mass-test thousands of AI agents at once to ensure they are following the necessary rules — helping to automatically stay compliant with complex, rapidly changing AI regulations.

Policy-As-Code Automated Enforcement Mass-Scale Autonomous AI Agent Simulation Verification
 

Evolving Contextual Risk

Context helps take the guesswork out of security by turning abstract data into understandable signals. By turning complicated risk math into clear, visual maps, we’re able to identify exposure and close the necessary gaps proactively.

 

Our Security Impact

Equifax remains deeply committed to transparency, communication, and collaboration, sharing our security resources for the benefit of the communities where we live and work. We are proud of how we are helping organizations around the world become more secure. In 2025, more than 4,000 external users across 70 countries accessed our public security and privacy controls framework to strengthen their own defenses. We continued to grow our public sector partnerships by joining 25 partners and Canadian law enforcement to execute 3,000 actions against fraud networks and by working with government bodies in El Salvador and Costa Rica to advance AI security education and shape national standardization frameworks.