The United States of America is one of the largest and most advanced countries in the world; because of that it also faces some of the most aggressive and deceptive crime problems compared to other countries.

The United States ranked in the bottom half of the world for most of 2010s in terms of cyber safety (The Global Security Index) but is slowly climbing the ladder after rigorous legislation and advances in security measures.

As of 2020 America is ranked third in the world in terms of cybersecurity (I imagine this big leap occurred due to the pandemic), but it still suffers from the highest amount of phishing/call scams an is fifth in identity theft rates according to George Varga, a writer for Seon.com’s cyber security Journal.

Comparatively, Denmark is one of the safest countries in the world when it comes to digital media markets. It ranks in the number one in most statistical categories according to the most recent study done by the Global Security Index. According to Paul Bischoff, a writer for Comparitech’s cyber security Journal, he states that:

Continuing on from the last two years, the safest country is Denmark with a score of 3.56. It was placed in the top three 10 times out of a possible 15, scoring particularly well in categories such as % of users attacked by ransomware trojans (0.02%) and % of attacks by crypto miners (0.11%). It also had zero users attacked by mobile ransomware trojans and mobile banking trojans. -Paul Bischoff

(Bischoff, 2022)

In recent years, the Danish government has launched a number of new initiatives for developing Denmark towards becoming stronger and more digitally secure. The major goals are defined in the ´Danish Strategy for Cyber- and Information Strategy 2018-2021: everyday safety in the form of enhanced security checks and authentication protection, increased cyber competency amongst civilians, and joint efforts among governing agencies and corporations to keep data safe.

America has a somewhat unique problem as in most corporations and civilians oppose working with governing bodies even if it is for security purposes against attacking forces. Learning and working with proper authorities and putting effective legislation in place could bolster America’s cyber security and maybe even bump us up a couple of places.