Israel, China and Cyber Security

Finland, Israel and Sweden are the best prepared countries in terms of cyber defenses, while China and India are both struggling, according to a major new report backed by McAfee.

Conducted by think tank Security and Defense Agenda, the report offers an assessment of current cyber threats and provides recommendations based on the work of scores of leading cyber security analysts in government, academia and the private sector. And it makes for sobering reading.

“For the moment, the ‘bad guys’ have the upper hand – whether they are attacking systems for industrial or political espionage reasons, or simply to steal money – because the lack of international agreements allows them to operate swiftly and mostly with impunity,” the report warns. “Protecting data and systems against cyber-attack has so far been about dousing the flames, although recently the focus has been shifting towards more assertive self-protection.”

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