
…alighting from his beast, he tied it up to a tree, and
going to the entrance, pronounced the words which he
had not forgotten, “Open, Sesame!? Hereat, as was its
wont, the door flew open, and entering thereby he saw the
goods and hoard of gold and silver untouched and lying as
he had left them.
— Arabian Nights, The Forty Thieves
The Beginning
My fascination with security began perhaps a decade ago when I took my
first job with the official ...