Benin improves its ranking in the latest report of the Global Cybersecurity Index published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). From ^149th place in 2017, the country moved up to 56th out of 194 countries. Many actions of the government of the rupture have favored this performance.

The latest report from the Global Cybersecurity Index credits Benin with another jump in its ranking. Now ranked 56th, the country moved up 92 places between 2017 and 2020. On a continental scale, Benin moved from 33rd place in 2017 to 8th place in 2018, then 6th out of the 44 African countries assessed in 2020. Regionally, the country is positioned as the number 1 in WAEMU. Five pillars were assessed in this study. These are legal measures, technical device, organizational level, capacity building measures and cooperation. After analyzing the organizational framework put in place by the Beninese authorities, the ITU gives the country a score of 19.48/20. Then 17.42/20 for legal measures and 15.63/20 for cooperation measures.

Among the actions that have contributed to this momentum of cybersecurity in Benin, we note in April 2018, the promulgation of Law No. 2017-20 on the digital code in the Republic of Benin. This Code brings together all the existing texts on the digital economy and devotes a book exclusively to cybercrime and cybersecurity. This legislative mechanism gives justice the means to qualify with precision and to repress all forms of computer and cybernetic offences. The National Information Systems Security Agency (Anssi), created by the digital code, monitors the computer systems of the administration, companies and other organizations of vital interest are protected. All things justifying the jump of 69 places observed in the 2018 ranking of the Global cybersecurity index. The National Digital Security Strategy approved by the Council of Ministers on May 6, 2020, provides for 47 actions over a period of three years, with a view to protecting information systems and critical infrastructures, strengthening the legal framework for the fight against cybercrime, develop skills and culture of digital security, promote digital trust and strengthen cooperation.