So proud to announce the @Harvard @BelferCenter National Cyber Power Index! Overall rankings below - Read on for some key takeaways.

*A THREAD*
Thanks to @Cyberscoop's @shanvav for her amazing coverage (+the below image): https://www.cyberscoop.com/chinese-cyber-power-united-states-harvard-belfer-research/
Report:
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/national-cyber-power-index-2020/

We defined cyber power as “a state’s ability to use cyber to achieve national goals”. Thus far, there have been 8 methods to use cyber in this way (Amassing Wealth and Extracting Cryptocurrency was #8 but we could not find enough open source data to measure it):

We then broke out cyber power further into intent and capability:
Intent = A country’s signaling that they are going to use cyber to achieve a specific goal.
Capability = a measurement of the country’s ability to do so.
Breaking out the score provides interesting results:

Overall Cyber Power is measured as the sum of (Intent * Capability) per objective.

There were definitely some surprises based on the data. (ie. US was ranked #1 for information control due to large # of top news orgs, Google removal requests, ops against ISIS recruitment)

These anomalies likely stem from operating entirely from open source. Because we want this study to be replicable and continued, we’ve open sourced the data and methods here [thanks to @a_schwarzenbach, PhD extraordinaire]!

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LT55JY

Huge thanks to @CFR, @Google, @FreedomHouse, @CSIS @shodanhq and many more for their datasets. Kudos to @JuliaVoo for putting this all together, and to the rest of the team: @irfanhemani @dancass580 & Simon Jones. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this thread!