Executive record
Jeremy Koppen
Career profile: Jeremy Koppen on CISO Spotlights ↗
Jeremy Koppen is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equifax. The appointment was announced in the week of May 19, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: Practice Leader of Incident Response at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Jeremy Koppen, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equifax
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-05-19) ↗ · Move record
Before May 2025· Earlier role
Practice Leader of Incident Response at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Named in the announcement of the Equifax appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-05-19) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of May 19, 2025 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-05-19) ↗ · Move record
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.
The company: Equifax
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Equifax: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Annual report
- Cybersecurity section of the fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, filed February 19, 2026
- Board oversight
- Named in the filing: Technology Committee.
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Financial Services whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Jeremy Koppen's, nearest first. The Financial Services bench
Robert Thomas, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Relm Insurance
Laura Deaner, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Azeem Bashir, Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Apex Group
Jim Hart, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Paymentology
Phillip Miller, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at H&R Block
Amit Spitzer, CTO and CISO at Glilot Capital Partners
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 5 months since the appointment was announced (week of May 19, 2025), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 26, 2026
- Financial Services in 2026
- 42 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Jeremy Koppen
- Who is the CISO of Equifax?
- Jeremy Koppen is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equifax. The appointment was announced in the week of May 19, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Jeremy Koppen become CISO of Equifax?
- The appointment was announced in the week of May 19, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Jeremy Koppen work before Equifax?
- Before the appointment, Jeremy Koppen was Practice Leader of Incident Response at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-05-19) ↗: the appointment at Equifax, week of May 19, 2025
- 2.SEC EDGAR: Form 10-K, fiscal 2025 ↗: the company's cybersecurity disclosure
- 3.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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