Cybersecurity is a common feature that every company, user, and website should have. Even if it something small it can provide protection from anyone who is willing to try to cause harm to that company, user, or website. Cybersecurity and knowing the risks of having a security risk not only exists in America, but in other countries in the world as well. Some being even worse than America.

One of the worst countries that haves cybersecurity risks are Tajikistan, Asia. This country is currently ranked in 113th in terms of safe countries to travel to (Tajikistan).Tajikistan has major issues with their country due to their poor powerlines that often goes out in the winter for the citizens living there. They also have no seaports, and suffer to corrupted or lazy police work and terrible natural disasters like earthquakes.

Another issue that Tajikistan has is its lack in defense against cybersecurity. Hackers see Tajikistan as an easy target due to their barely working cybersecurity, which lets them easily practice their malicious code and software on anyone in the country. Some of these reasons can be shown to be because of their lack of money, leaving them one of the poorest countries in the world as well, however this can also be caused by the censorship in the country.

Tajikistan’s government consistently engages itself in censorship for many well known apps. These apps can be known application like YouTube, to local new sites like Asia-Plus. There used to be ways around these issues like using a VPN, however even these are starting to be disables due to engineers. If a user was able to get a VPN to work, the speeds would be so slow that there would be no reason to even use the internet.

One might see how this could be useful, as not many citizens would be on the internet in the first place to get into trouble with cybersecurity risks. However, this is a two edged sword for many reasons. One would be citizens would not have knowledge of most common hacks, or software issues due to not having the information given to them. This makes most citizens unaware of the risks of cybersecurity attacks, which is why hackers see the country so easy to launch their attacks in. Another reason is that the government itself still has access to their poor cybersecurity, leading to attacks on the government worse than the United States since their country is already poor on defending these attacks.

Work Cited

Unknown. (2023, February 27). Tajikistan (ranked 113rd). Legatum Prosperity Index 2023. www.prosperity.com/globe/tajikistan