Few would disagree that cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and in intensity, and most organisations confirm they have now suffered at least one cyber incident.

Let’s take for example the recent incident involving Equifax, one of three major credit reporting agencies.  They revealed that highly sensitive personal and financial information for around 143 million consumers was compromised in a cybersecurity breach that began in late spring. The vulnerability that attackers exploited to access Equifax’s system was in the Open source Apache Struts web-application software, a widely used open source platform. read more