Jeremy Koppen named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equifax

Equifax announced the appointment of Jeremy Koppen as CISO. Prior to Equifax, Koppen spent 13 years at Mandiant, most recently as practice leader of incident response.

According to the company's leadership page, Koppen holds the title of EVP, Chief Information Security Officer at Equifax. CSO Online reports that the security of the software Equifax produces also falls under Koppen's responsibility.

For Fortune 100 and 500 companies, Koppen led hundreds of cyber engagements at Mandiant, the company says. Koppen has given strategic counsel to corporate boards, C-Suite executives and government leaders, the leadership page says. Koppen holds a Computer Science master's degree with a Digital Forensics concentration from the University of Rhode Island and a Computer Science bachelor's from the University of Iowa, the leadership page says.

The company says it has put approximately $3 billion into the Equifax Cloud, a global technology and security infrastructure, since 2018. The company reports a 2025 NIST Cybersecurity Framework score of 4.4 for its security maturity level, up from 4.3 the previous year. CSO Online reports that Equifax's passwordless strategy covers all 22,000 of its employees and contractors and is being extended to its business partners.

Alerts and scans at Equifax now reach 19.8 million per day, and 50% of SOC incident tickets are handled automatically, CSO Online reports. According to Koppen, Equifax now does code review earlier in design with help from AI, cutting the time it takes from 46 days to 18.