CHAPTER 1
CYBER
THREATS
SINGAPORE
FACES
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Chapter 1 | Cyber Threats Singapore Faces
This inaugural edition of the Singapore Cyber
Landscape 2016 will provide a closer look at the
cybersecurity situation here, including qualitative
and quantitative reviews of the nation’s cyber
health, and some of the Cyber Security Agency of
Singapore’s (CSA) response and recovery efforts.
On the frontline of such efforts is the National
Cyber Security Command (NCSC), which monitors
and responds to cyber threats, and research
and makes sense of the implications of these
threats to Singapore’s CII, businesses and
individuals. The NCSC carries out such work
through three teams, namely the National Cyber
Threat Monitoring Centre (NCTMC), National
Cyber Incident Response Centre (NCIRC), and
National Cyber Threat Analysis Centre (NCTAC).
Through the NCSC, data from incidents in
Singapore’s cyberspace are analysed. “Singapore’s
cyberspace” will include domain names with “.sg”
or Singapore-mentions, Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses used in Singapore, or Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) based in Singapore.
In the event of major cyber incidents affecting
Singapore’s CIIs, CSA, supported by NCSC, will
take on the role of the national incident manager,
coordinating cross-sector incident response,
implementing specific national-level mitigation
measures, and providing incident response
assistance to the affected CIIs.
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