Equifax publishes 2025 security annual report

Equifax published its sixth annual Security Annual Report, highlighting progress from its cloud transformation backed by a $3 billion multi-year investment.

• AI triage agents auto-resolved nearly 50% of SOC tickets in 2025, sustaining a mean time to detect threats below one minute.
• Guardrails for workforce AI use included a control layer that screens prompts and responses for data leakage or injection attacks.
• Adaptive defenses blocked evasive malware, intercepted live deepfake attacks, and supported daily prevention of more than 19.8 million threats in 2025.
• Cybersecurity maturity rose to a 4.4 NIST framework score in 2025, extending outperformance versus major industry benchmarks for a sixth year.