New centre to help Singapore boost cyber security

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-centre-to-help-spore-boost-cyber-security

By Lim Yan Liang
The Straits Times
Feb 4, 2016

Singapore will face more cyber attacks as technology is increasingly used 
in everyday life, from smart traffic lights and driverless trains to the 
ubiquitous smartphones.

The greater risk, which is inevitable as Singapore pushes to be a Smart 
Nation, was flagged yesterday by the managing director of the Infocomm 
Development Authority (IDA), Ms Jacqueline Poh, noting the rise in the 
United States of such security incidents involving its critical 
infrastructures.

To address the danger, Singapore plans to give existing measures a further 
boost.

One is the introduction of a Cyber Security Bill in Parliament later this 
year to give the 11-month-old Cyber Security Agency greater powers to 
secure Singapore's critical information infrastructure.

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