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Legal measures
Strongest national pillarLaws, regulations and legal frameworks for cybersecurity and cybercrime.
18.83/2094% of pillar maximum
ETHIO-CERT DATA • PLAIN-LANGUAGE EXPLANATION
Ethiopia's cybersecurity numbers, made understandable.
These charts explain the national statistics published by Ethio-CERT: what they measure, what they suggest, and what they cannot tell you about a particular organization.
Start with the most important distinction
The Global Cybersecurity Index measures a country's commitment across laws, institutions, capabilities, skills and cooperation. It is not a measure of how many attacks happen, whether systems are secure, or whether your organization is compliant.
2024 NATIONAL BENCHMARK
A 76.34 score means Ethiopia is building substantial national cybersecurity foundations.
Ethio-CERT publishes Ethiopia's total as 76.34 out of 100 in the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024. ITU places this result in Tier 3: Establishing—a tier for countries demonstrating a basic national cybersecurity commitment while still developing and integrating measures.
In simpler terms: Ethiopia has many important building blocks in place, especially legal measures, but the five areas are not equally developed.
76.34out of 100
GCI 2024ITU MATURITY TIERT3Establishing
A national-level category—not an organizational grade.
THE FIVE PILLARS
Where Ethiopia's national commitment is strongest—and where the relative gap is largest.
Each pillar can contribute up to 20 points. The bar length shows the share of that pillar's maximum, making unlike-looking decimals easy to compare.
02
Cooperation measures
Second-highest pillarDomestic and international partnerships, agreements and information sharing.
15.69/2078% of pillar maximum
03
Capacity development
Solid, with room to growSkills, training, research, public awareness and workforce development.
15.33/2077% of pillar maximum
04
Technical measures
Developing capabilityNational technical capabilities such as incident-response teams and operational mechanisms.
14.37/2072% of pillar maximum
05
Organizational measures
Largest relative gapNational strategy, responsible institutions, governance and coordination mechanisms.
12.12/2061% of pillar maximum
How to read the chart
Legal measures score highest at 18.83/20. Organizational measures score lowest at 12.12/20. This identifies a relative national-level difference within the index; it does not prove that every Ethiopian organization is strong in law or weak in governance.
50,000+attempted attacks intercepted
REPORTED OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY
A large number of blocked attempts shows pressure on digital systems—not 50,000 successful breaches.
A July 2026 Ethio-CERT article says INSA defenders intercepted more than 50,000 attempted attacks against Ethiopian digital systems in the referenced 2025/26 period. “Attempted attacks” can include repeated or automated activity, and “intercepted” indicates defensive action. The figure should not be read as 50,000 organizations compromised, 50,000 unique attackers, or 50,000 confirmed data breaches.
Read the Ethio-CERT articleNational commitment and relative development
It helps compare the presence and maturity of national legal, technical, organizational, capacity and cooperation measures.
Your company's security or compliance status
A national score cannot replace a scoped assessment of your governance, risks, controls, evidence, suppliers or incident process.
Use the context, then assess your own readiness
Translate relevant obligations into owners, evidence and prioritized security actions that match your systems and operating risk.
SOURCE NOTES
Every number should answer “according to whom, for what period, and measuring what?”
- GCI score and five pillar measures
Published on the Ethio-CERT homepage for the 2024 ITU Global Cybersecurity Index.
Ethio-CERT - Index meaning and tier context
ITU methodology and 2024 report explain the national commitment benchmark and five pillars.
ITU GCI 2024 - 50,000+ attempted attacks
Reported by Ethio-CERT in a 9 July 2026 article citing INSA's defensive activity.
Ethio-CERT article
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