Throughout my three-plus decades deeply entrenched in the security profession, I’ve encountered myriad obstacles, enigmas and, at times, downright pandemonium. In fact, you could say, without risk of hyperbole, that my tenure has been dominated by three C’s: Chaos, Complexity and assorted other Conundrums. And in that respect, I have not been alone.
Even when I happened upon isolated security solutions that could address a portion of the many challenges poised against me, their diverse implementations left me with a complexity that was formidable and, which ultimately, contained gaps that left me with integration challenges. Those gaps were spaces through which my adversaries knew that they could attack, at least until such time when I could successfully integrate them under a common protective umbrella.