A Safer Cyberspace for Singapore and Singaporeans EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our digital infrastructure forms the technology backbone of how users access the Internet (the “pipes”), our online activities represent the traffic that flows through those pipes, and our population are the end-users whom we wish to protect. Taken together, these three thrusts are mutually reinforcing in contributing to a safer cyberspace as our citizens and businesses increasingly shift their activities online. What they mean for Singapore and Singaporeans are that: Digitalisation has changed the way we live, work and play; it also brings about vast opportunities for us to seize. As Singapore embarks on its digital transformation toward a Smart Nation and Digital Economy, Singaporeans and our enterprises will also face increasing cyber threats as more of our citizens and businesses go online. Cybersecurity will be a critical enabler of our push toward digitalisation. Without robust cybersecurity in Singaporeans are protected from most online harm ever reaching us. place, our systems and networks remain open and vulnerable for malicious threat actors to exploit our digital assets and data. If threats come through our defences, we know about them early and can take action to prevent To this end, the Safer Cyberspace Masterplan aims to raise the general level of damage. This entails businesses making use of cybersecurity in Singapore, for individual users, communities, enterprises, and readily available resources to take actionable organisations. It comprises the following three thrusts: steps to protect themselves. A B C Securing our core digital infrastructure Safeguarding our cyberspace activities Empowering our cyber-savvy population Singaporeans can live, work and transact in the digital domain securely, having taken steps to protect themselves online. 2 SAFER CYBERSPACE MASTERPL AN 2020 3