CISOs, Sewers, and Unsolvable Problems

Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries.Written by Daniel Ballmer, Senior Transformation Analyst, Zscaler.CISOs and sewer engineers face similar challenges, and it goes beyond keeping the contents of their systems moving fast and smooth. There is a mathematical exercise that has many names, but I learned it as the New York City Sewer Problem. In short, it states that finding the optimal configuration of the NYC sewer system is a problem modern computing cannot solve in a human lifetime. B…