Security News > 2021 > June > America world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China, says Brit think tank
The United States is comfortably the world's most powerful nation when measured on "Cyber capabilities that make the greatest difference to national power," according to British think tank The International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The report says America's "Capability for offensive cyber operations is probably more developed than that of any other country, although its full potential remains largely undemonstrated".
Australia's capability stems from its membership of the Five Eyes alliance, and while it has shown it has offensive capabilities it needs "To make dramatically greater investments in cyber-related tertiary education and carve out a more viable sovereign cyber capability";.
China has weak defences and under-developed policies to protect key infrastructure but proven offensive capabilities.
Trails America and China in terms of "Developing the most sophisticated offensive military cyber tool";.
One reason for that assessment is that the US and its allies "Have agreed to restrict, with differing degrees of severity, China's access to some Western technologies" and therefore potentially impeded China's ability to develop its own cyber capabilities.