Israel, Finland and Sweden top for computer security

Israel, Finland and Sweden are judged to be the nations which are most resilient to cyberattacks on their public and private computer systems, according to an in-depth study into cybersecurity published on Monday by a Brussels-based think–tank.
However, four other countries – Brazil, India, Mexico and Romania – are deemed by the study to be the countries most vulnerable to cyberattacks and cybercrime. This is because the public and private sector in these states do not have the correct systems and procedures in place to defend themselves.
The study, published by Security and Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based think-tank, contains what it calls “country by country stress tests” on some 23 nations using a methodology drawn up by Robert Lentz, a former US government official.
The SDA says it brought together eight senior security officials at Nato and the European Commission to use the methodology in order to judge the resilience of the 23 nations on a range of fronts. Among the issues being examined in the stress tests was whether government and industry in each country uses standard tools of computer network defence; and whether there is good exchange of information between the public and private sectors.

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