Cybercrime has a reach that can span the whole planet if there is an internet connection. With this criminal activity able to effect globally, all nations must have systems in place to protect against attackers. The United States is presented with a specific challenge in comparison to other countries. For one point, the U.S. has a high population of people that not only have easily valuable currency, but also access to valuable information as well. The U.S. is the target of 60% of worldwide phishing attacks, showing how much of a target the population of the country is. In the article Cyber Crime Nation Typologies: K-Means Clustering of Countries Based on Cyber Crime Rates, it goes over various cyber crime targeting trends, relaying what makes a country more susceptible to the attacks, and the sources of the attacks.

One data metric is tracking one technique of cyber attacks which is hosting malware, botnets, phishing server hosting, and the number of botnet command and control servers are in the nations. The company Symantec found that the top countries that have these sources are the U.S., China, Brazil, Germany and India. These countries have the traits of high amounts of internet connection, along with access to valuable information to governments and companies. An interesting result of this data research is that Russia is 7 on that list. It does have to be pointed out that this research was published in 2010, it can be assumed that this data may have changed in 12 years, especially in regards to changing and developing information technologies, and economic stances.

In the Electric Grid Security publication, it refers to a specific incident of a cyber attack on the Ukrainian in 2015. This attack took advantage of the vulnerabilities of the energy grid that was exposed to phishing, lack of security of remote access, logic integrity of control systems, and lack of proper implementation of technical tools. Ukraine was in the position of weakness next to another nation to attack for political reasons, and that can be seen today obviously in the current conflict. The U.S. has significantly more resources to establish cyber security to help prevent such an attack.