South Africans have good and bad cybersecurity habits, but lag global levels

South Africa was ranked sixteenth out of 21 countries in terms of national privacy and cybersecurity awareness and practices and local participants in virtual private network service company NordVPN's National Privacy Test achieved good scores in their awareness of and responses to online threats and phishing. However, South Africans' reaction to potential hacks was below the global average, while they also achieved poor scores in terms of protecting their information on social media.