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Ideas, computers, and intellectual property have become extremely important in the modern Information Age. The Internet has become so essential to modern life that several countries have declared Internet access to be a fundamental right. 4 But the importance of technolo-gy in the Information Age comes with a downside: the vulnerability of modern society and the global economy to minimally funded cyberattacks from remote corners of the world. In the 1950s, American school children were taught to" duck and cover" in the event of an atomic bomb explosion. 5 A popular cautionary film from 1951 warns that a flash of light brighter than the sun accompanies such an explosion and that the flash could cause an inju-