The Vatican Apostolic Archive contains 53 miles of shelving holding the most crucial, sensitive, and historic documents of Western civilization. As these fragile documents are painstakingly digitized for preservation, the Vatican faces a massive new challenge: securing this priceless digital data against modern cyber threats.
The Vatican has constructed state-of-the-art, highly secure server vaults, isolated from the public internet (air-gapped) and protected by cutting-edge encryption protocols. Working with elite cybersecurity firms, they are ensuring that the digital copies of papal bulls, ancient letters, and historical records are just as impenetrable to hackers as the physical vaults are to thieves.