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In one of the episodes of Sherlock Holmes, Jim Moriarty orchestrated a simultaneous heist on the Tower of London, Bank of England, and Pentonville Prison with a single tap on his phone. Sherlock, in turn, tried to find the ‘master code’ that could open any locker anywhere in the whole wide world – a unique combination of ones and zeroes that bears the power to penetrate into layers and layers of security. This was a fictional scenario, it did raise a question and a very important one at that – Is our security system this…

Identity in a remote world has taken on added importance for cybersecurity leaders speaking in a webinar on the state of security and the evolving role of CISOs at VMworld 2020. “In the CISO community we’ve talked about the notion of ‘Your identity is your perimeter.’ This put an exclamation point on that,” said Jason Lee, CISO of Zoom, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic. “When I think of the scenario of how do I know…