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From Budapest to Aruba: required patches and updates to a 2001 convention

Internet penetration Individuals equiped with access to the Internet, %	>>> What does this have to do with Aruba, Budapest, or 2001?
### Fixes to heatmap size and legend coming up soon, stay tuned! Palette	The evolution of internet penetration from 1990 to today helps to visualize the growing opportunities and risks of the Internet and the many nuances across the globe. If the Internet serves as a support for individual, business or public-sector communications and transactions, it also presents a new vector for attacks: cyberattacks. The visualization we created helps to see cybersecurity not only as the preoccupation of developed countries but rather as a global concern. That countries from Aruba to Pakistan are so well connected has strong implications for the world order. The circonvoluted paths ransomwares such as WannaCrypt took across the globe is further proof global connectivity poses security issues beyond the borders of the sole "high-tech" countries. This reminds us of the much-needed international cooperation on the issue. The weaknesses of Aruba's cybersecurite are an immediate threat to any other country in the world. The 56 signatories of the Budapest Convention sent a strong signal in 2001. Perhaps it is time to rething the convention, in its implementation, scope, and breadth of parties?

Internet penetration

Individuals equiped with access to the Internet, %

>>> What does this have to do with Aruba, Budapest, or 2001?

### Fixes to heatmap size and legend coming up soon, stay tuned!

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The evolution of internet penetration from 1990 to today helps to visualize the growing opportunities and risks of the Internet and the many nuances across the globe. If the Internet serves as a support for individual, business or public-sector communications and transactions, it also presents a new vector for attacks: cyberattacks.

The visualization we created helps to see cybersecurity not only as the preoccupation of developed countries but rather as a global concern. That countries from Aruba to Pakistan are so well connected has strong implications for the world order. The circonvoluted paths ransomwares such as WannaCrypt took across the globe is further proof global connectivity poses security issues beyond the borders of the sole "high-tech" countries.

This reminds us of the much-needed international cooperation on the issue. The weaknesses of Aruba's cybersecurite are an immediate threat to any other country in the world. The 56 signatories of the Budapest Convention sent a strong signal in 2001. Perhaps it is time to rething the convention, in its implementation, scope, and breadth of parties?

Data sourced from the World Bank. Visualization sourced from here.