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Spain

Spain has a national CERT, CCN-CERT (Spanish Government National Cryptologic Center - Computer Security Incident Response Team) (and 1 more team in our list), and our daily collector sees it publishing. On the Bloch Index it ranks 21st of 191; its context pillars score Economy 49.4, Governance 80.8, Education 92.0.

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Publishing
National CERT
CCN-CERT
93.3
Cyber resilience rating
A · Strong · first pass, 3 of 7 pillars
21st
Bloch Index rank
of 191 countries · score 71.2
First pass. This rating covers 3 of the methodology's 7 pillars, scored from evidence we already hold (treaty and adequacy registers, our own CERT list and collector, and passive checks of two government websites per country). It is a starting point, not a verdict: the remaining pillars, a wider government-domain sample and corrections from the countries themselves will move it edition by edition. Version v0.1 first pass, cut-off 2026-10-26.

Our cyber reasoning

The Cyber Risk Barometer rates countries on protection in practice, not on paper: each indicator is a public, checkable fact or something we measure ourselves. The seven pillars, their fixed weights and the A to E bands are set out in the methodology before any country is scored. This page shows every indicator we hold for Spain, with the evidence behind it.

How the rating is built

Each pillar is scored 0 to 100 from its indicators. The rating is the weighted mean of the pillars scored so far, on the fixed weights published in the methodology. The 4 pillars not yet scored are left out and the weights renormalised, so this is a preview, 3 of 7 pillars.

PillarWeightScorePoints
Gold-standard data protection20100.040.0
National CERT in action15100.030.0
Government cyber hygiene, measured1577.823.3
Weighted mean93.3
Cyber resilience rating93.3 · A Strong

Gold-standard data protection

20% of the rating
100/ 100 · 20 of 20 points

Is the country bound by Convention 108/108+, or recognised by the EU or UK as giving equivalent protection?

IndicatorEvidencePoints
✓ EU member state or EEA: the GDPR applies directlyP1.EUEU member state checked 2026-10-0820 / 20
Sources: Council of Europe Treaty Office; European Commission and ICO adequacy lists.

National CERT in action

15% of the rating
100/ 100 · 9 of 9 measurable points (15 in all)

Is there a national CERT, and is it visibly working? Three of the six indicators are measured today from our own list and collector; the other three are still to be measured. Our daily collector reads every working feed, so "publishing" is observed, not declared.

IndicatorEvidencePoints
✓ A national (government-designated) CERT/CSIRT existsP2.EXISTSCCN-CERT (Spanish Government National Cryptologic Center - Computer Security Incident Response Team)4 / 4
✓ It is publishing: our daily collector sees a working feedP2.ACTIVE90Feed working4 / 4
✓ Machine-readable feed (RSS, Atom or JSON) or public advisoriesP2.FEEDFeed published1 / 1
· It is a FIRST memberP2.FIRSTNot yet measured– / 2
· It publishes regularly (12 or more items in the last 12 months)P2.REGULARNot yet measured– / 2
· It publishes an annual report or statisticsP2.REPORTNot yet measured– / 2
  • CCN-CERT (Spanish Government National Cryptologic Center - Computer Security Incident Response Team) (CCN-CERT) · Government CERT · Europe · languages es · website · status: site unreachable
    Site serves a JS browser-check (403) to automated clients; feeds reported at /component/obrss/rss-noticias.feed and rss-ultimas-vulnerabilidades.feed could not be verified.
  • INCIBE-CERT (Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute - National CSIRT) (INCIBE-CERT) · National CERT · Europe · languages es/en · website · news · alerts · feed · status: feed ok
    incibe-cert.es redirects to incibe.es; English blog stale since 2025-09-18 and English feeds carry mostly Spanish titles; Spanish blog feed latest 2026-09-03.
Sources: Our national-CERT list (FIRST teams directory plus hand-added teams) and our daily feed collector; status checked 2026-10-26.

Government cyber hygiene, measured

15% of the rating
78/ 100 · 11.67 of 15 points

Do the country's own government websites and email domains follow basic security practice? First-pass sample: the national CERT's and the data protection authority's websites.

IndicatorEvidencePoints
✓ DMARC at p=quarantine or p=rejectP6.DMARC3 of 3 domains pass: www.ccn-cert.cni.es, www.incibe.es, www.aepd.es checked 2026-10-264 / 4
✓ SPF record present and not +allP6.SPF3 of 3 domains pass: www.ccn-cert.cni.es, www.incibe.es, www.aepd.es checked 2026-10-262 / 2
½ DNSSEC: zone signed (DS record)P6.DNSSEC2 of 3 domains pass: www.incibe.es, www.aepd.es checked 2026-10-262 / 3
✓ HTTPS front page with a valid certificateP6.HTTPS3 of 3 domains pass: www.ccn-cert.cni.es, www.incibe.es, www.aepd.es checked 2026-10-263 / 3
½ Strict-Transport-Security headerP6.HSTS2 of 3 domains pass: www.incibe.es, www.aepd.es checked 2026-10-260.67 / 1
✗ security.txt with a contactP6.SECTXT0 of 3 domains pass: none checked 2026-10-260 / 2

Domains sampled

DomainDMARCSPFDNSSECHTTPSHSTSsecurity.txt
www.ccn-cert.cni.esCCN-CERT (Spanish Government National Cryptologic Center - Computer Security Incident Response Team) · national CERT✓✓✗✓✗✗
www.incibe.esINCIBE-CERT (Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute - National CSIRT) · national CERT✓✓✓✓✓✗
www.aepd.esAgencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) · data protection authority✓✓✓✓✓✗

A first-pass sample of the two government bodies most responsible for cyber and privacy. Passive lookups only: DNS records and the HTTPS front page.

Sources: Our own passive DNS and HTTPS checks of government domains.

Still to be scored

50% of the rating
4pillars to come

These pillars are defined in the methodology with fixed weights and yes / partial / no indicators against a fixed standard. They appear here, with every indicator and its evidence, as each is scored.

PillarWeightMain sources
Citizens' rights protectedDoes a GDPR-grade law give people enforceable rights, and does an independent authority use its powers?20Statutes; regulator sites; our fines data
Incident reporting and transparencyMust serious cyber incidents and personal-data breaches be reported, quickly, and does the public get to know?10Statutes and regulator rules
Cybercrime law and cooperationCan the country prosecute cybercrime and work across borders?10Council of Europe Treaty Office (Budapest Convention); UN cybercrime convention status; FIRST membership
AI and emerging-tech safeguardsAre there binding rules for high-risk AI and for connected-product security?10Statutes

Table: Cyber Risk Barometer · WLD-CRB-57 · Source: Cyber Risk Barometer national-CERT list (FIRST teams directory plus hand-added teams) and daily feed collector, status 2026-10-26; data/ratings.json v0.1 first pass

Context from the Bloch Index

Three of the Bloch Index's seven pillars, reused as it publishes them: the economy, institutions and education that shape a country's cyber capacity. Every indicator is ranked against every other country the Bloch Index scores (191) and turned into a percentile score from 0 to 100; a pillar is the average of its indicators. Snapshot of 2026-10-05; these numbers do not enter the cyber rating.

Economy

18% of the Bloch Index
49.4/ 100

Economic strength, stability and growth, measured by GDP per head, inflation, unemployment, growth rate and debt sustainability.

IndicatorValueYearPercentile score
Inflation% · lower is better · FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG2.72025
54
Unemployment% of labour force · lower is better · SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS10.42025
20
GDP per headUS$ (PPP) · higher is better · NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD59,8682025
81
GDP growth% · higher is better · NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG2.82025
42
Central government debt% of GDP, IMF GFS consolidated · lower is better · GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS1062024
11

World Bank fundamentals (41.4) are blended 80/20 with a market signal: the 10-year government bond yield of 3.92% (2026-09, OECD) scores 81.5, giving 49.4.

Governance

18% of the Bloch Index
80.8/ 100

Institutional quality and accountability: rule of law, control of corruption, voice and accountability, and government effectiveness (World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators).

IndicatorValueYearPercentile score
Rule of lawWGI score, 0 to 100 · higher is better · GOV_WGI_RL.SC72.962025
79
Control of corruptionWGI score, 0 to 100 · higher is better · GOV_WGI_CC.SC61.212025
74
Voice & accountabilityWGI score, 0 to 100 · higher is better · GOV_WGI_VA.SC78.222025
87
Govt effectivenessWGI score, 0 to 100 · higher is better · GOV_WGI_GE.SC75.482025
84

Education

11% of the Bloch Index
92.0/ 100

Educational access and attainment: secondary and tertiary enrolment.

IndicatorValueYearPercentile score
Tertiary enrolment% (gross) · higher is better · SE.TER.ENRR93.82024
92
Secondary enrolment% (net) · higher is betterno recent data

Table: Cyber Risk Barometer · WLD-CRB-58 · Source: Bloch Index (blochindex.web.app) snapshot 2026-10-05; World Bank World Development Indicators and Worldwide Governance Indicators; OECD long-term government bond yields

Full Bloch Index profile for Spain → (all seven pillars, nineteen indicators and the wider evidence).

League table context

The connectivity and economic columns shown for Spain in the league table. Fixed broadband is fetched live from the World Bank; the rest come from the Bloch Index's World Bank snapshot.

IndicatorValueYear
Fixed broadband per 100 people39.22024
Internet users (% of population)96%2024
GDP per head (PPP, int$)$59,8682025
Central government debt (% of GDP, World Bank/IMF GFS)106%2024
Tertiary enrolment (% gross)94%2024

Table: Cyber Risk Barometer · WLD-CRB-59 · Source: World Bank World Development Indicators (IT.NET.BBND.P2 live; IT.NET.USER.ZS, NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS, SE.TER.ENRR via the Bloch Index snapshot 2026-10-05)

Memberships

Bloc and treaty memberships exactly as the Bloch Index records them (list updated 2026-08-30), so the two sites group countries the same way. The league table filters by them and the super league compares the EU, China and the United States.

Blocs and treaties

  • OECD · Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (developed economies)
  • EU · European Union member
  • UN · United Nations member
  • IMF · International Monetary Fund member
  • WB · World Bank member
  • NATO · North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Data sources

  • National CERT: the Cyber Risk Barometer's list of national CERTs and cyber agencies (FIRST teams directory, plus teams added by hand), and our daily feed collector, which records whether each team's feed is working. Master copy: the "CERTs & sources" tab of our data workbook. No contact data is collected.
  • Cyber pillars: methodology v0.1 (seven pillars, fixed weights, A to E bands), our own design; evidence from treaty offices, official adequacy lists, statutes, regulators and our own passive checks. Not derived from any other country cyber ranking.
  • Economy, Governance and Education: Bloch Index pillar scores and indicators (World Bank World Development Indicators and Worldwide Governance Indicators; OECD Main Economic Indicators for bond yields), snapshot 2026-10-05.
  • Memberships: Bloch Index country-memberships list.
  • Population (used to weight blocs in the super league): World Bank, via the Bloch Index.