In the eponymous Labyrinth in the 1980 movie—starring David Bowie as The Goblin King in his most bemusing turn—the paths shift around, statues appear and vanish, and there’s a swirling M.C. Escher staircase.
It’s a world where the rules constantly change, keeping a very young Jennifer Connelly off balance as she works her way through a maze filled with Jim Henson’s scaly and scruffy puppets. I may just be thinking about Labyrinth because it’s about to be Halloween, but that’s what cybersecurity feels like for me—a phantom maze, with high stakes and moving walls, where you risk falling into a trap door.
