Most security leaders quietly live with a paradox they rarely name out loud. Until you truly look inside the box of your environment, your organization is both secure and compromised. The dashboards might be green and the audit reports reassuring, but the uncomfortable reality is that you do not know your actual state until you observe it directly and often. Meeting the cat — a paradox with teeth Many readers will have heard of Schrödinger’s cat in passing, but the details blur over time, so it is worth revisiting what the analogy means before applying it to security. It is a thought experiment in quantum physics that illustrates how strange the rules of the microscopic world seem when appli...