Singapore Holds First Annual Cyber Awareness Day
Singapore’s Cyber Security Awareness Alliance has celebrated the country’s first cybersecurity awareness day. The government-led group held the event in conjunction with an Information Security Seminar. The day aims to increase online awareness and stronger passwords. Agencies and companies from the public and private sector who participated in the event include Land Transport Authority, [...]
Police in Singapore will soon have access to cutting-edge research and development facilities in fighting cyber crime with the standup of the Interpol global complex. Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar told the New Straits Times that delegates at the recent Interpol’s 79th general assembly unanimously endorsed the opening of the facility. “The [...]
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The world’s busiest web domain, .com, is now the most dangerous, according to McAfee’s fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. While .com was found to be the riskiest top-level domain, the most dangerous country domain is Vietnam (.vn). Japan’s .jp ranks as the safest country domain for the second year in a [...]
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Under Attack: Singaporean IT Industry Warned of Advanced Persistent Threats
October 5, 2010 No CommentSingapore’s security industry has been urged to reconsider how IT security architectures are designed and built, and to devise strategic solutions to better protect organizations from cyber attacks such as Advanced Persistent Threats. The call came from Singapore’s Senior Minister of State For Law & Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee during a speech at the [...]
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Singapore’s well-developed IT infrastructure and dependence on technology has made the country a possible target for cyber terrorists, a scenario the Singaporean government is trying to prevent from occurring. Last year, McAfee released a report ranking Singapore as the 10th-riskiest domain out of 104 around the world. The report noted that almost one out of [...]
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The government of Singapore has announced a new accreditation program for individuals looking to work in cybersecurity. The Qualified Information Security Professional (Qisp) training program is designed to increase the “professional proficiency and build a critical pool of competent personnel in Singapore to handle, contain and manage cyber security threats,” according to the Association of [...]
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In an effort to educate school children on good cyber hygiene, Singapore has opened a “Virtual Cyber Security Park,” along with announcing several other measures today as part of the Infocomm Security Masterplan 2 (MP2). Students attending primary school in Singapore (the equivalent of elementary school in the United States) will have the opportunity to [...]
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The government of Singapore has set up its own cybersecurity agency, known as Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority. The agency will be responsible for dealing with cyber threats targeting people in Singapore. According to government officials, the need for a cybersecurity agency was highlighted by the attacks against Georgia, Estonia, the United States, and South [...]
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