United Nations survey finds cybersecurity gaps everywhere except Singapore

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06 July, 2017

"Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defences and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done", Reuters wrote.

The U.S. ranked second worldwide in terms of cybersecurity, the U.N. International Telecommunication Union concluded Wednesday in its Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI).

According to the results of a United Nations survey published on Wednesday July 5, Singapore's approach to cybersecurity is near-perfect.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian accounting software company Intellect Service says that the hackers behind last week's global attack created backdoors in the software that installed in every computer that wasn't offline at the time.

The GCI measures the commitment of different states to cybersecurity analyzing five categories, namely legal measures, technical measures, organizational measures, capacity building and cooperation.

The United States came second in the ITU's Global Cybersecurity Index, but numerous other highly rated countries were small or developing economies.

Singapore was number one on the index, followed by the U.S., Malaysia, Oman, Estonia, Mauritius, Australia, Georgia, France and Canada.

Thailand was ranked ahead of India (25th), Germany (26th) and China (34th).

Half of the countries were found to have no cybersecurity strategy prompting the UN to call for the creation of a cybersecurity strategy as a "crucial first step" for any nation.

The survey said "Cybersecurity is an ecosystem where laws, organizations, skills, cooperation and technical implementation need to be in harmony to be most effective".

The U.S. received scores higher than - or equal to - Singapore in four of the five categories, but ranked significantly worse with regards to cooperation, or its collaborative efforts across national and global domains as well as between the public and private sector, according to the U.N.'s rubric.

No country did worse than Equatorial Guinea, which scored zero.


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