Retail's Detection Architecture Is Mathematically Broken. Agentic Defense Is the Fix.

The briefing warns that in Q1 2026 retail incidents nearly tripled as attackers moved from phishing to fast, quiet techniques—systematic reconnaissance, IP enumeration, credential stuffing, and exploitation of external remote services—citing active exploitation of FortiClient EMS (CVE-2026-21643), SEO-poisoning campaigns (Akira), and supply-chain impacts; it frames these as an architectural detection problem and pitches GreyMatter, a cross-tool, in-motion correlation and autonomous response platform to reduce detection latency, analyst load, and credential exposure risk.