Overall rating
Pillars
Comparative
The general rankings tab exhibits the efficiency of the examined
economies relative to at least one one other and aggregates their scores
throughout 4 pillars: important infrastructure, cybersecurity
assets, organizational capability, and coverage dedication.
This pillar signifies how nicely every nation is served by
strong and safe digital and telecommunications networks and
computing assets that underpin main financial exercise.
In addition to an general indicator of telecom capability, as
assessed by the UN, these metrics incorporate the nation’s
variety of knowledge facilities and safe servers. This pillar additionally
contains indicators derived from our international survey during which
respondents assessed the robustness of every nation’s important
infrastructure.
This pillar collects a number of views of the technological and
authorized enforcement “assets” in every nation that forestall
improper entry and use of information. These embody the ITU’s
holistic evaluation of cybersecurity capabilities, our personal
rating of digital privateness protections, and survey
respondents’ views on how nicely cybersecurity instruments and
infrastructure are utilized of their market.
This pillar measures the relative cybersecurity maturity and
digital expertise of the nation’s companies and
establishments. This features a measure of digital participation
in authorities the extent to which organizations are acquainted
with synthetic intelligence, and survey respondents’
assessments of the diploma to which cybersecurity capabilities
are strategic and formally built-in of their organizations.
This pillar measures the comprehensiveness, high quality, and
efficacy of a rustic’s regulatory atmosphere in enhancing
and selling resilient cybersecurity practices. This measure
incorporates the World Bank’s analysis of the federal government’s
effectiveness and the standard of its cybersecurity regulation,
in addition to survey respondents’ assessments of the robustness
and completeness of that regulation.
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knowledgeable commentators for his or her time and insights:
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Magda Chelly, Senior Cybersecurity Expert, Founder of Women on
Cyber, and Co-Founder of Responsible Cyber, Singapore -
Michael Henri Coden, Co-Founder and Associate Director at
Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan (CAMS), and Senior Advisor at BCG
Platinion, United States -
Sadie Creese, Director, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, and
Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Oxford, United Kingdom -
Terry Cutler, Creator of the Fraudster Mobile App, Cybersecurity
Expert, and Founder and CEO of Cyology Labs, Canada -
Alexander Klimburg, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity, World
Economic Forum, Austria -
Manion Le Blanc, Head of International Cyber Policy Sector,
Security and Defence Policy Division, European External Action
Service, Brussels -
Clay Lin, Director World Bank Information and Technology
Solutions, and Chief Information Security Officer, United States -
Andrew W. Lo, Professor of Finance, Director, MIT Laboratory for
Financial Engineering, United States -
Andrew Milroy, Cybersecurity Advisor, Founder of Veqtor8,
Singapore -
Taylor Reynolds, Technology Policy Director, MIT Internet Policy
Research Initiative, United States -
Denis Robitaille, World Bank Group Vice President, Information and
Technology Solutions, and WBG Chief Information Officer, United
States -
Daniel Weitzner, Founding Director, MIT Internet Policy Research
Initiative, United States -
Yufei Wu, Professor, Centre for Information and Communication
Technology, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago
About
Methodology: The Cyber Defense Index 2022/23
The MIT Technology Review Insights Cyber Defense Index charges and
ranks the world’s largest and most digitally-forward economies’
functionality to arrange towards and reply and recuperate from
cybersecurity threats. It assesses 20 of the world’s main economies
(largely members of the G20 discussion board, excluding Russia and including
Poland) based on how nicely their establishments have adopted
know-how and digital practices to be resilient towards
cyberattacks and the way nicely governments and coverage frameworks promote
safe digital transactions.
The Index was developed by combining two broad units of enter knowledge:
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Secondary supply knowledge, together with international digital know-how
adoption statistics and coverage and regulatory knowledge, largely
sourced from worldwide establishments and benchmarks. -
A worldwide survey of 1000 senior executives (with an equal variety of
respondents from every nation ranked within the Index) who’ve
cybersecurity duties for his or her respective organizations.
Forty-three % of respondents have been CIOs, CTOs, or chief
safety officers. Respondents have been requested to price the
effectiveness of know-how adoption and coverage and regulation
formation, and of their very own cybersecurity actions, in addition to
to touch upon their know-how growth priorities over the
subsequent two to a few years.
Both units of information knowledgeable a collection of indicators—lists of
qualitative and quantitative components—which have been then chosen,
populated, and arranged into 4 pillars. Data from secondary
sources was transformed into scores. This was achieved for the indications
sourced from survey responses as nicely, the place every nation’s
responses have been ranked based on their variance from the worldwide
imply.
The use of survey knowledge within the CDI is meant to offer “boots on
the bottom” assessments of the present working circumstances for
sustaining cybersecure environments. This is much like the best way
buying supervisor indexes or enterprise confidence indexes
incorporate the views of execs on their very own (or their
nation’s) relative efficiency.
The indicator knowledge was subjected to development evaluation, knowledgeable by
main analysis interviews with international cybersecurity professionals,
know-how builders, analysts, and policymakers. This was
complemented by a consultative peer-review course of with
cybersecurity know-how analysts. Based on these inputs, weighting
assumptions have been assigned to find out the relative significance with
which every indicator and pillar influenced a rustic’s cybersecurity
posture.
The 4 pillars of the CDI are:
This pillar signifies how nicely every nation is served by strong
and safe digital and telecommunications networks and computing
assets that underpin main financial exercise. In addition
to an general indicator of telecom capability, as assessed by the
UN, these metrics incorporate the nation’s variety of knowledge
facilities and safe servers. This pillar additionally contains indicators
derived from our international survey during which respondents assessed the
robustness of every nation’s important infrastructure. This
pillar’s indicators collectively signify 30% of the CDI’s
rating.
This pillar collects a number of views of the technological and
authorized enforcement “assets” in every nation that forestall improper
entry and use of information. These embody the ITU’s holistic
evaluation of cybersecurity capabilities, our personal rating of
digital privateness protections, and survey respondents’ views on
how nicely cybersecurity instruments and infrastructure are utilized in
their market. At 35%, this pillar contributes the most important
portion of the Index’s rating.
This pillar measures the relative cybersecurity maturity and
digital expertise of the nation’s companies and establishments.
This features a measure of digital participation in authorities
the extent to which organizations are aware of synthetic
intelligence, and survey respondents’ assessments of the diploma
to which cybersecurity capabilities are strategic and formally
built-in into their organizations. This pillar accounts for
20% of the general rating.
This pillar measures the comprehensiveness, high quality, and
efficacy of a rustic’s regulatory atmosphere in enhancing and
selling resilient cybersecurity practices. This measure
incorporates the World Bank’s analysis of the federal government’s
effectiveness and the standard of its cybersecurity regulation,
in addition to survey respondents’ assessments of the robustness and
completeness of that regulation. This pillar accounts for 15% of
the general rating.
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