Among other findings of the survey:

Behind India’s 92 percent, Japan (89 percent) is the second most worried about cyber attacks, whereas Russian adults (53 percent) express the lowest level of overall concern.

Four in ten (40 percent) survey respondents globally are not sure about how well their government or private industrial sectors are able to defend against cyber hackers, including 10 percent who are not at all confident.

When asked about the vulnerability of nine critical industry sectors (which have varying degrees of computer and internet security systems in place to guard against cyber hackers), majorities of respondents globally see all sectors as being vulnerable to cyber attacks. Industrial sectors likely to be perceived as vulnerable to such attacks include oil and gas production (64 percent), medical/health care/pharmaceuticals (64 percent), power grid (63 percent), chemicals (61 percent) and aerospace/defense (59 percent).

Among those who are relatively unconcerned about cyber hackers (“not very fearful” or “not at all fearful”), no single factor stands out as a primary justification. Globally, many (31 percent) say that this is because they believe the risk of something major actually happening is really quite low, particularly in Australia (52 percent).  Other reasons for lower levels of concern include:

Cyber hackers would have already done something big if they actually had these capabilities (25 percent),

Computer and Internet security has been able to counter or block almost all of the threats (24 percent); or,

Governments and its intelligence and armed forces will not let this happen (24 percent).

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