On Jan. 31, 2012, Mark Clayton wrote for the Christian Science Monitor on a new cybersecurity report released by McAfee and the Security & Defense Agenda (SDA) of Brussels. You can find that report here. According to the article, McAfee/SDA based the report off of a survey of over 250 policy-makers in 27 countries.
A few of the report's findings:
- "57 percent of global experts believe an arms race is taking place in cyberspace."
- "36 percent say cybersecurity is more important than missile defense."
- "43 percent identified damage or disruption to critical infrastructure as the greatest single threat posed by cyberattacks."
The report also rated countries on their cyberpreparedness. On a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the highest level of cyberprepardness) the U.S. got 4 stars. Russia and China got 3 stars. Israel lead the pack with 4.5 stars.
You can find the Christian Science Monitor source article here.
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