Cyber age reality is shaped by the inherent asymmetry between attackers and defenders. While attackers enjoy the ease of concealing and disguising identities, the widespr ead availability of data encryption utilities and the proliferation of cyber-attack tools, defenders, on the other hand, face the daunting challenge of detecting advanced, subtle and persistent threats, which are extremely hard to trace.
Having spent decades of his career in cybersecurity and intelligence, Guy Segal, General Manager (GM) of local cybersecurity start-up Custodio Technologies, knows how hard it is for good tech talent to come by – and how much harder it is to keep them.
As cybersecurity continues to be a worldwide concern, ADSC researchers are working to improve upon and apply a technology that has been proven to be reliable in identifying and analyzing security attacks – a honeypot – to industrial control systems.
Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Cyber Security, Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, presented Singapore's inaugural Cybersecurity Awards yesterday night. Six individuals and organisations were recognised for their outstanding achievements and contributions to Singapore's cybersecurity ecosystem.