Hindawi: Target built one of the best security organizations post-breach
Orion Hindawi · a16z Podcast | Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends) · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:09
Orion Hindawi is the CTO of Tanium, which counts Target as a customer. He discusses how Target overhauled its security infrastructure after its major 2013 data breach.
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“We have some customers, and I think Target is a great example of one of them, that are extremely thoughtful and were thoughtful in the aftermath of the breach. They spent a lot of time building a real lasting structure, and I think they've done one of the best jobs we've seen in building a security organization.”
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