Singapore (VNA) - With cyber attacks becoming more sophisticated, the Singaporean Ministry of Defence has established a new unit to equip the Government’s network defenders with stronger capabilities, while tightening their coordination.
The new Digital Defence Hub (DDH), which comes under the ministry’s Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT), has also been tasked with driving cyber-security collaboration, both within the Government and with the private sector, the Straits Times has reported.
Speaking at the recent closed-door technical conference hosted by CSIT, Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam said that the new unit will focus on developing and deploying capabilities to support a wide range of public agencies and missions important to national security, such as to counter advanced persistent threats (APTs).
APTs are well-resourced attackers, usually state-linked, who lurk in networks to steal sensitive information or disrupt essential services.
Shanmugam said suspected APT attacks on Singapore more than quadrupled between 2021 and 2024. Other forms of digital threats that can severely disrupt societies, such as ransomware attacks and digital scams, are also evolving quickly, he noted.
The DDH will focus CSIT’s deep expertise in various technical areas like cyber threat research, malware analysis and red-teaming into better capabilities for public agencies to defend, investigate and respond against high-impact cyber threats, he added.
Set up in 2003, CSIT is the lead digital technology agency in the defence ministry that builds digital tools to meet the country’s national security needs./.
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