Why the Target Breach Wasn't a Detection Failure - It Was Prioritization | Garrett Hamilton at UCI
Nicole Perlroth asks Garrett how Reach's involvement would have impacted the breach with Target. Attackers came in through a third-party HVAC vendor. Credentials were compromised. Alerts fired. But nothing rose to the level of urgency it deserved. As Garrett Hamilton explains at UCI, this is where security breaks down—not detection, but prioritization. Most teams keep investing in reacting faster inside the SOC. The harder (and more effective) shift is upstream: reducing the exhaust before it ever hits the console.
