Among the many geek themes of the original Matrix movie is the character Tank sitting at a bank of monitors, looking for trouble on cameras and viewing the streaming green characters of the Matrix. If he glances away for a minute he risks missing something. For years after, as a consultant traveling from client to client I saw the green Matrix screen everywhere, either as someone’s desktop wallpaper or as their screensaver. It was a bit of a geek-badge I saw wherever I went. I don’t know about...

In the traditional world of an on-premises network it is a common practice to implement a defense in depth: multiple layers of networks isolated from one another so that the critical organizational data resides in a secure core. In order for an intruder to access that critical data they have to breach each layer individually, slowing them down, increasing their chances with each layer of either failure or abandonment of the attack in favor of a softer target. But what do you do in a world where ...