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Review NIST's guidelines for Patch Management at https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-4... . Next research the Equifax breach that occured last year. Analyze the breach in the context of NIST's recommendations. What was Equifax lacking that contributed to the breach? How much will this likely cost them? What steps you would take if you were tasked with managing that system to ensure that this didn't happen again? What policies might you need to create? Remember - a minimum of 250-words and response to another 2 learners.
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Equifax Breach Case
Equifax breach happened as a result of failing to observe the NIST recommendations.
These recommendations insist on the identification, acquiring, installation, and verification of
systems’ patches (Scarfone & Souppaya, 2013). Based on the data breach which Equifax faced,
the four were not observed k...