India improves its ranking! Enters in top 10 in Global Cybersecurity Index rankings

New Delhi, July 01: Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India took a significant leap and entered the rank 10 from 47 on the global cybersecurity Index. While the country has been ranked 4 th in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

 

India has ranked ahead of its neighboring country China and Pakistan in the global ranking of the countries.

 

GCI has released the ranking on the basis of the performance of five parameters of cybersecurity 1) Legal Measures 2)Technical Measures 3) Organizational Measures 4) Capacity Development and 5) Cooperation.

For each of the five aspects, all the countries’ performance and commitment were assessed through a question-based online survey, which further allowed for the collection of the supporting evidence.

 

 

The countries were asked 82 questions where 20 indicators were measured. Based on the assessment across the five pillars and 20 indicators, India has scored a total of 97.5 points from a possible maximum of 100 points, to make it to the tenth position worldwide in the GCI 2020.

 

 

 

The GCI results for India show substantial overall improvement and strengthening under all parameters of the cybersecurity domain.

 

This has come amid when the country has been dealing with instances of cross-border cyber attacks.

GCI is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It was launched in 2015 to measures the commitment of 193 ITU members of states and the state of Palestine to cybersecurity to help them to identify the area of improvement in cybersecurity.

 

It publishes the ranking to raise awareness of the importance and different dimension of cybersecurity issues. In 2028 India was placed at the 47th spot.