Chapter 3
Keeping Our Cyberspace Safe and Trustworthy Together
FACILITATING
EXCHANGES
WITH REGIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
International collaboration is pivotal to global
cybersecurity. Singapore has been actively involved
in various international platforms on cybersecurity,
from multilateral discussions on international cyber
norms to bilateral cooperation.
In 2016, CSA signed Memoranda
of Understanding (MoUs) with the
Netherlands and the USA. The
MoUs cover cooperation in areas
such as operational exchange
of cyber threat and attackrelated information; sharing
of best practices on national
cybersecurity approaches,
strategies and procedures and
CII protection; certification of
cybersecurity products and
services; and training.
Singapore has also initiated
discussions on cyber norms
with its ASEAN partners,
including at the ASEAN
Ministerial Conference on
Cybersecurity (AMCC). The
AMCC was organised during
the Singapore International
Cyber Week (SICW) in October
2016 for ASEAN Ministers
and senior officials from the
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telecommunications and other
relevant sectors to discuss
regional cybersecurity issues.
It also saw ASEAN Member
States agreeing on the value
of developing a set of practical
cybersecurity norms of behaviour
in ASEAN, and calling for closer
cooperation and stronger
coordination on regional
capacity-building initiatives.
Such new initiatives will add to
existing efforts which have been
ongoing for many years. These
include a capacity-building
workshop jointly organised by
Singapore and the USA for ASEAN
countries in August 2016, and
the annual ASEAN CERT Incident
Drill (referred to as “ACID” by
its participants), which has been
testing the incident-handling
procedures of ASEAN CERTS
over the last 10 years.
CYBERGREEN
Cyber Norms discussion at the International Cyber Leaders’
Symposium held at the inaugural Singapore International
Cyber Week on 10 Oct 2016
Initiated by the Japan
Computer Emergency
Response Team in 2014,
the CyberGreen project
aims to provide a cyberhealth check of countries
by highlighting the levels
of infections seen in
each country. In 2016,
Singapore became one of
the founding sponsors of
the global initiative. CSA
will work with IMDA and
telcos to clean up the
infections in cyberspace
to improve Singapore’s
overall cyber hygiene.
Ministers and Senior Officials from ASEAN Member States at the
inaugural ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity held
on 11 Oct 2016
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