Evolving to Stay Ahead
“Today’s threat landscape is defined by a convergence of volume, speed, and AI-driven sophistication, and our team is navigating through it with relentless ambition to outpace the status quo. Our pursuit of security leadership has no ceiling.”
- Jeremy Koppen, Chief Information Security Officer
Another Year of Raising the Bar
We continue to deliver on our commitment to being an industry leader in security and have built a culture where every Equifax employee and contractor recognizes that security is a critical part of their job.
The report details how we:
Modernized our approach to security culture
Reinforced security as a market differentiator
Co-innovated with vendors and partners
Unified Security and Engineering
Drove advanced security in an AI age
Leveraging our cloud-native infrastructure, we approached AI from three dimensions:
Used AI to enhance Security
Secured Equifax business use of AI
Defended against AI threats
19.8M+ cyber threats blocked each day
Defending against nearly 230 hostile attempts every second, a 30% increase from last year.
240,000+ global phishing simulations
Testing our workforce and continuously increasing difficulty to match the evolving threat landscape.
180+ New Product Innnovations securely launched
Our sixth consecutive year over 100 NPIs, proving speed and security aren’t at odds.
61% reduction in security consult times
Deploying an AI advisory assistant to accelerate architectural design reviews.
6 consecutive years of maturity leadership
Achieving a Security Maturity score that outperforms all major industry benchmarks.
1 minute mean time to detect cyber threats
Leveraging AI to far surpass the industry average of 60 minutes.
Independent Benchmarking
We rely on objective, third-party analysis to validate the strength of our defenses.
Security Maturity
The maturity of our cybersecurity program improved in 2025, outperforming all major industry benchmarks for a sixth consecutive year.
What is Security Maturity?
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.
Security Posture
Our security posture score exceeded Technology and Financial Services industry averages for a fifth consecutive year.
What is Security Posture?
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 assess the risk of out supply chain ecosystem.
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About Equifax Security
Security is built into everything we do, and we are proud to have developed one of the most advanced and effective cybersecurity programs in the world.