India tops list of most cyber secure nations
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 21:28 IST   |    23 Comments
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India tops list of most cyber secure nations
Bangalore: India tops the list as the most cyber secure nation with an attacks-per-PC ratio of 0.05. The country with the best score was India, with only one attempted cyber attack for every 20 PCs in the country, blogs Vibhooti Gupta. Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks recently unveiled the results of a study on cyber securities of nations. The study was named as the 'World Cup' of cyber security, in which they compiled a list of countries that are most vulnerable to online attacks. SecureWorks, an information security service provider, collected data on cyber attacks attempted against its customers from January 2010 to July 2010. It then broke down the numbers by IP address origin and factored in the estimated number of PCs for each country to reveal some interesting results. The study only took the top 16 countries, by number of PCs into consideration. While India being the safest digital country in the world with a mere 52 attacks per 1,000 PCs, USA ranked the most targeted country with the rate of 1.6 incidents per PC. In a surprising revelation, China is only in the seventh place despite having the biggest number of PCs after the United States. Jon Ramsey, CTO for SecureWorks commented "The reasons for the difference in number of attempted attacks per country could comprise many things - this ranges from the overall Internet speeds in a country and how proactive the ISPs are in protecting their clients to general user education on security. The ratio of Windows, Mac and Linux users in a country will also make a big difference. Overall, the study shows that not only are organizations and individuals putting themselves at risk by not securing them, but they are actually providing cyber criminals with a platform to compromise other computers." "The statistics show that a substantial number of vulnerable computers in countries worldwide have been compromised and are being used as bots to launch cyber attacks," Ramsey added.

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