Russell Ayres

Russ Ayres is a member of Equifax’s Global Security Senior Leadership Team, where he serves as SVP of Cyber & Deputy CISO. In his role, Russ is actively involved in aspects across all of cyber security, including: detection and response, cyber intelligence, automation, web application firewalls, network security, red teaming and fraud monitoring. In previous roles for Equifax, Russ held the Interim CSO position after the breach as well as SVP of Security Architecture/Engineering and VP of Technology for several product lines including KYC, KML and marketing applications. Before Equifax, Russ worked as AVP of Product Development at Claritas/Nielsen and Senior Engineer at Objective Interface Systems and Harris Corporation, specializing in large scale data capture, analytics and encryption.