Microsoft's cybersecurity report rethinks global web landscape

Which is better prepared to cope with cybersecurity issues, Europe, the United States or Africa?

According to Microsoft's new Security Intelligence Report (.pdf), the global impact of policies concerning cybersecurity can affect how different countries are able to cope with cyberattacks worldwide, and future policies has to take issues including demographic predictions into account.

Published by Paul Nicholas, senior director Security at Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, Aaron Kleiner and Kevin Sullivan at George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute, the report, titled "Measuring the Impact of Policy on Global Cybersecurity," focuses on how changing global demographics and the rising numbers of online users are an important factor in creating and enforcing protective policies.

According to the report, current projects indicate that internet users will double by 2020 to four billion worldwide. The largest boost in the population of online users is expected to come from China, India and Africa.

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