Very few people would make a connection between cybersecurity and U.S. immigration law. In fact, a decade ago, very few people outside of the information technology (IT) industry knew what cybersecurity was or even considered it something worth worrying about. Many of us naively believed that with the right passwords, encryption software and firewalls, our data and information would be secure.

In recent years, however, our world has become far more technologically advanced and, as a consequence, technologically dependent. Nearly every occupation and industry has developed some use for artificial intelligence, a big data platform, or web-based application, whether it is banking, retail, pharmaceutical, medical, legal or agricultural.