Cyber Defence Gains Traction

Whilst the spotlight has been upon implementing GDPR in Europe, things have not been standing still elsewhere.

Singapore has passed a new Cyber Security Bill. This has many positive aspects as it appoints a National CISO to oversee and coordinate measures to protect critical national infrastructure. It also contains important requirements regarding accepted best practice, a duty to report incidents and enables the CISO's staff to investigate and demand standards based improvements.

This does not come a moment too soon as a recent report from AT Kearney and Cisco ( Cybersecurity in ASEAN: An Urgent Call to Action ) indicates that Cyber Security spending in ASEAN countries is at half the global average (0.07% of GDP cf. 0.13%) and much less than European or North American Countries which are typically at around the 0.2 - 0.3% mark.

So for global organisations, now is the time to make sure that their cyber measures are up to standard so that they can contine to operate safely and legally on a global basis.