Equifax Data Breach

Equifax Data Breach

This paper has to be very technical.

Introduction

–              What is credit? Why is it important?

–              About Equifax

–              Introduce to Equifax data breach incident

–              Explain what will be further discussed in the paper

Body

–              Major data leakage incident in the past and how stolen data is sold, price for different types of data

–              Briefly describe the causes of data breach (in depth discussion at ‘Challenges / Limits’ section)

–              Damage done (financial and reputation, people’s response, any lawsuit?) and the impact

–              Challenges / Limits (Technical issues)

–              Prevention (technical / managerial level decision)

–              Future Directions, what moves Equifax has made after the incident?

Conclusion

–              Protecting data requires consistent effort

–              Technical issues Equifax had, how it was penetrated, what was implemented after

–              Lesson we can learn, as Cybersecurity students