Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Garrett Hamilton, CEO & Co-Founder of Reach, joined Bryce Carter, CISO for the City of Arlington, at the NTX ISSA Lunch & Learn in Plano, TX — a practical, operator-focused discussion with the local security community.

Security tools don’t usually break. They just slowly stop doing what you think they’re doing. Or perhaps were never set up to do what you needed in the first place. Something got deployed. It worked. Then it drifted. No one noticed. And three years later, you’re questioning the renewal because you’re not even sure what it’s protecting anymore. That’s configuration rot. Thanks to Julian Lee at eChannelNews for the fun, thoughtful and much needed conversation on this topic and more.

We really enjoyed our conversation with Ed Amoroso from TAG Infosphere. We didn’t start Reach to chase headlines. We started it because the hard security problems weren’t getting solved. The important ones rarely are. Security only works when incentives are aligned to the customer’s actual outcome. Not noise. Not theater. Not (exclusively) shiny tools. That alignment is what makes the work worth doing.

“IT giveth. Security taketh.” A topic examined in a print interview with Colt Blackmore, co-founder & CTO of Reach Security, written by Dan Raywood at Security Boulevard: ︎ The long-standing friction between IT enablement and security restriction︎ Configuration drift as the quiet divergence between intended and actual state︎ How incremental change accumulates into measurable risk︎ The challenge of maintaining alignment in complex, fast-moving environments︎ Why drift often remains invisible until consequences surface.

Zero Trust (and probably many general posture) conversations stall at one question: Where are we actually today? Because Reach connects directly through APIs, teams can quickly assess their environment without deploying new agents or ripping anything out. That makes it practical to benchmark a Zero Trust program against the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model — and see what’s real vs. assumed.