An excessive-degree committee tasked to check and toughen facts protection practices throughout the whole public service held its first assembly on Thursday (April 18).
The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO) stated the 10-member committee is chaired by using Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who’s additionally Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister-in-rate of Public Sector Data Governance.
The committee reviewed statistics incidents and discussed the tactics followed by way of other jurisdictions.
It additionally discussed broad procedures to elevate records protection, so that the Government can use facts to deliver offerings and behavior planning and policy development.
The Public Sector Data Security Review Committee – convened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong – will investigate how facts are gathered and guarded via groups, providers and permitted third events, and recommend improvements.
It will post its findings and recommendations to PM Lee by means of Nov 30.
The non-authorities contributors of the committee are leader scientific adviser for countrywide security to the UK Government, Prof Anthony Finkelstein; leader facts officer and handling director and head of institution technology and operations of DBS Bank David Gledhill; former accomplice at KPMG Ho Wah Lee; chairman at Ensign Infosecurity Lee Fook Sun; and chief government officer at fitness offerings provider Optum Sir Andrew Witty.
The SNDGO said they were selected for his or her revel in and understanding in how era and information security are carried out in their respective fields.
It becomes formally announced that the four ministers concerned in Singapore’s Smart Nation efforts can be a part of the committee.
They are Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, who is Minister-in-rate of the Smart Nation Initiative; Communications and Information Minister S. Iswaran, who’s the Minister-in-Charge of Cyber Security; Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing, who’s Minister-in-charge of the Public Service; and Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information and Transport Janil Puthucheary, who is Minister-in-Charge of the Government Technology Agency.
The committee can be supported via a separate professional institution including seven international experts and industry professionals. “The expert institution contributors were decided on for their experience and understanding in digital technology and records safety,” said the AND GO.
Members of this professional organization are the dean of the school of regulation on the National University of Singapore, Professor Simon Chesterman; managing director of technology offerings and statistics protection offerings at DBS Keng Seng Wei; president of land structures at ST Engineering, Dr Lee Shiang Long; leader era strategist on the Ministry of Health office for healthcare transformation, Dr Robert Morris; president of the Asia facts safety officials and senior privacy counsel for Apple in Asia-Pacific Huey Tan; chief executive of cyber protection at Singtel Arthur Wong; and chief generation officer at GIC Wu Choy Peng.
In addition to this professional institution, the Public Sector Data Security Review Committee is supported by way of an inter-agency task force formed by public officials throughout the Government.
The SNDGO said that the committee and inter-agency project pressure may additionally invite more professionals to join the group. It can also have interaction contributors to the general public and commercial enterprise communities.
The formation of the committee follows a spate of cyber-security breaches and incidents over the last 12 months.
The latest data breach concerned the non-public data of more than 800,000 blood donors, which regarded on-line improperly for greater than months.
Singapore turned into a hit by using its worst cyber attack in June ultimate yr, while hackers went into the database of public healthcare cluster SingHealth and stole the private information of 1.5 million sufferers and the outpatient prescription facts of 160,000 people, inclusive of PM Lee.
