Risk of Entitlement

Six months have passed since Equifax copped to the Exxon Valdez of personal confidential data spills (Krebs). Is this the death knell of what remained of Trust? No. Trust was roadkill long before Equifax’ epic stumble. The old network perimeter security mantra of “Trust but verify” had already been superseded by “Never trust, always verify.” Thus Zero Trust networking (Virtru).

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Does the Equifax breach represent an egregious negligence of standard good operational security? (money.cnn.com). Absolutely. Is Equifax rewriting the book on How to Manage Incident Response Horribly Following a Catastrophic Failure? For sure. Will former CEO Richard Miller be prosecuted for insider trading by the SEC and DOJ? (California Lawyer). Probably not.

There are pertinent takeaways from this train wreck in progress: