In this digitalized age, where almost everything has been reduced to zeros and ones (0s & 1s), the success of all ventures largely depend on its ability to gather data and process such data into information that will be used to make calculated and informed economic decision. If multinationals can maintain their financials by simply dealing on information, then, information/data protection is worth every amount of resources invested into protecting them. Please do not mistake data and information for garbage.
Now that we have our little "strong" passwords, we can go and turn them into a nice messy string of gibberish. Oh, those poor hackers!
A very brief introduction to the Cryptography.