Luxembourg has ranked 11th out of 175 countries for its commitment to cybersecurity, according to the 2018 Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI).
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN specialised agency for ICT, has just released its GCI for the year 2018. This index is the leading public international benchmark for measuring the commitment of UN member countries to cybersecurity.
Luxembourg has ranked 11th out of the 175 countries evaluated under the GCI 2018. It ranked 7th in the "Europe" region, out of 46 countries evaluated. On the occasion of the previous edition of the GCI, published in 2017, Luxembourg ranked 36th globally and 20th in Europe.
The 2018 edition, which has just been published, examined, among other things, the legal, technical and organisational framework in the reviewed countries, as well as their capacity building arrangements and their cooperation measures with other countries.
Several good cybersecurity practices in Luxembourg have been included in the narrative part of the report to serve as positive examples for other countries, notably the Luxembourg CIRCL's Malicious Information Sharing Platform (MISP) used by other Computer Security incident response teams (CSIRTs) around the world. The cooperation activities of the different CERTs in Luxembourg, as well as research (SnT) and youth awareness (BEE-SECURE) were also highlighted.
