A new ranking shows how companies around the world are actually faring in the fight to protect data from cybercriminals.
Most Americans were unfamiliar with credit bureau Equifax, before news broke of its recent data breach. A large number of the 145 million people potentially affected had never directly supplied information to the company. Equifax receives most of its sensitive information from third parties such as lenders, retailers and debt collectors. How much blame, if any, should these entities bear? Perhaps no one could have anticipated the size and scope of the breach, yet it fits an emerging cybercrime pattern that too many organisations are ignoring.
