Singapore Topped UN’s Global Cybersecurity Index In 2017, But We Still Got Hacked Singapore is still dealing with the aftermath of the massive SingHealth data breaches. With SingHealth announcing that they’ll be delinking internet access at all public healthcare sectors and setting up a Committee Of Inquiry on Monday (23 Jul). But few people are aware of how ready we were for such an attack in the first place. More secure than Japan, US & UK Last July, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced that Singapore topped United Nations’ Global Cybersecurity Index. The index takes into account 5 different pillars of cyber security: Legal Technical Organisational Capacity building Cooperation Singapore attained a near perfect score of 0.925. This ranked Singapore ahead of countries like Japan, The United States and The United Kingdom. The ITU report piles on further praise for Singapore’s vigilance, Singapore has a long history of cybersecurity initiatives. It launched its first cybersecurity master plan back in 2005. The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore was created in 2015 as a dedicated entity to oversee cybersecurity and the country issued a comprehensive strategy in 2016. Crippling attack by hackers In lieu of this praise by the United Nations, it is clear how […]
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