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Cybersecurity: How safe are your data?

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Many scientists want to keep their data and resources free; cybersecurity specialists want them under lock and key. Jeffrey Perkel reports.

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Perkel, J. Cybersecurity: How safe are your data?. Nature 464, 1260–1261 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641260a

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