Special thanks to Ashi Agrawal for contributing this chapter.
In late July of 2017, credit reporting powerhouse Equifax disclosed that a group of unknown hackers had compromised the personal information—including driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers—of over 145 million customers.1 The attack was the latest in an ever-growing wave of public breaches and hacks that had already struck Target, Ashley Madison, and Citigroup, among others.
While the Equifax breach was especially shocking due to the data’s sensitivities, such an attack could strike any company. Hackers—people who look for cybersecurity ...
