In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was extremely crafty and dishonest, and the punishment brought down upon him from the gods was to roll a very large boulder up a hill. each time Sisyphus attempted to do this, the boulder would escape him before he was able to reach the top, and so he had to begin the task all over again... This continued throughout eternity. This analogy has been applied to many problems over the course of history, including within the world of IT - where no matter how many resources are employed to solve a particular problem, it can be quite typical for the issue at hand to remain either largely or completely unsolved, and just as daunting as it had been before. While I don't think we have quite reached a "Sisyphean state" in data security, an RSA survey conducted by Forrester Consulting...