Cybersecurity risks are why cybersecurity professionals are needed and will continue to be needed. In fact, as technology advances, these professionals will be needed even more. Risks in the cyber world don’t just stop in the United States. Other countries experience risks as well. I am going to compare the different cyber security risks in the United States and the cyber security risks in Germany.

            According to the United States Cybersecurity Risks Magazine, data breach, Insecure Application User Interface, cloud abuse, malware attacks, loss of data, hacking, single-factor passwords, insider threat, Internet of Things, and Shadow IT systems were the top ten cybersecurity risks in 2019 (Kingori 2019). Meanwhile in a PDF file, called, “The State of IT Security in Germany in 2019, Identity theft, malware, ransomware, Distributed Denial of Service, Botnets, spam, APT attacks, exploits using modern processor Architectures were amongst some of the biggest risks. These risks are based on the type of attacks experienced most often in that year (Federal Office for Information Security 2019). One key difference I notice amongst the two is that the United States experiences risk with cloud abuse. Maybe this means other countries do not rely as heavily on cloud services as the United States does. Perhaps Germany implicated better security measures for that risk that year. It can be hard to tell. Both countries, however, experience malware attacks, and loss of data. Identity theft is essentially the loss of data. I think both countries are at risk for those things because it is an issue/risk that happens sometimes even with top-notch security. Someone in Germany or the United States is probably losing some type of data or has malware in their software every day. I wonder if the differences and the similarities of cyber security risks in different countries could be beneficial to the cyber world? Different countries are obviously going to be better at securing certain risks while others are not. I would hope and could probably assume there is a worldwide organization for the mitigation of cyber security risks across the world.

Federal Office for Information Security. (2019, October). The State of IT Security in Germany in 2019. www.bsi.bund.de. Retrieved September 26, 2021, from https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Securitysituation/IT-Security-Situation-in-Germany-2019.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

Kingori, D. (2019, January 17). Top 10 cybersecurity risks for 2019. United States Cybersecurity Magazine. Retrieved September 26, 2021, from https://www.uscybersecurity.net/risks-2019/.