Prompt:

Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and another country.

Post:

Cybersecurity refers to the protection of information and technological assets, and every nation has a different need for cybersecurity given the broad nature. The United States is a world leader that has a much different set of risks than a developing country such as Nicaragua. The U.S. political structure is very different from Nicaragua, meaning the information that is collected and how it is stored and maintained will be much different. Citizens in Nicaragua do not have the same accessibility to the Internet or information technology (IT) devices that people in the U.S. have, so the people of the U.S. are going to have significantly more reliance on the Internet of things (IoT) than those in Nicaragua. This inherently means sensitive information is more likely to be stored digitally in the U.S., whereas in Nicaragua they may opt to store an equivalent information asset physically.

This in turn means the security concerns regarding the two different storage mediums are different; digital assets are susceptible to hacking and malicious interference, or even just simply corruption whereas physical information assets are at risk of being lost, stolen, or damaged. Physical assets also are much harder to keep an effective change log of, meaning malicious information tampering is in a way easier than that of a digital file that can keep track of changes made. But on the other side, the access to that information is much easier digitally, so there is inherently more opportunity for manipulation with digital assets. In this case, the United States will have a much higher risk of system intrusion than Nicaragua because there is a higher quantity of sensitive data stored digitally in the U.S., but this also means Nicaragua is at a higher risk of having physical information assets damaged, manipulated, or lost. Digital assets are also much easier than physical assets to make redundant copies of, so if information is lost, there is a higher risk of that data being permanently lost in Nicaragua than in the United States.