Just as thieves developed a new interest in explosives following the 1861 invention of the combination lock — and the concurrent rise in the popularity of bank vaults — we have seen an increase in cybertheft since the dawn of the Digital Age in the 1980s. Each evolution in data storage and movement — from the advent of personal computers, to the explosion of mobile computing, to the birth of the cloud — has brought new methods of putting data at risk. There is a balance that must be struck between moving from paper to digital and taking cybersecurity seriously. But there is no question about the value of making a digital transformation; from time savings to precision, adopting digital solutions spawns enormous benefits. In scientific research and across manufacturing sectors, tec

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