Seventh by whose count? Microsoft’s cyber ranking and the limits of vendor data

At the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi this month, Nicholas Butts, Microsoft’s Director of AI and Cybersecurity Policy, described India as the world’s seventh most targeted country for cyberattacks and the third most targeted in Asia.He warned that the threat was real and growing, with cybercriminals and state linked actors turning to artificial intelligence. The reported remarks did not specify the metric, the observation period or the systems measured.The warning deserves serious attention. So does its framing. When a company of Microsoft’s standing makes a claim about a nation’s security from a prominent platform, the statement carries an authority well beyond its dataset, and the limits of the evidence need to travel with it.What the Ranking Measures
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