With nearly a quarter of the world’s population living in South Asia, the challenges of developing a resilient Internet are numerous even when discounting political tensions, economic crises, and natural disasters that currently and historically destabilize the region.
At Pulse, we measure Internet resilience in relation to a country's Internet infrastructure, performance, security, and market readiness. For some countries in South Asia, there is quite a bit of disparity between these four pillars (Figure 1). For example, Bhutan’s Security score ranks a long way ahead of the next best in the region (Sri Lanka, 66%).
If we zoom into the data points that contribute to Bhutan’s exceptional security score, we can see that this higher-than-average score is due to several factors, including its:
- Near 100% of pages load using HTTPS (secure web traffic)
- ccTLD having deployed DNSSEC (DNSSEC adoption) and the overall high percentage of users validating DNSSEC
- Near 100% MANRS score
- High level of DDoS protection toward other countries
- 100% protection against spam infection (as listed in the composite blocking list)
