This week, Singapore announced the setting up of a new cybersecurity body to boost the capabilities of Southeast Asian states in this realm. While the move is just the latest in a string of measures proposed by the city-state over the past few years, it nonetheless bears noting within the context of the significant challenges that the region faces in the cyber domain and Singapore’s leadership efforts in helping manage those in concert with regional partners.
As I have noted before in these pages, Singapore as a country and Southeast Asia as a region have been grapping with a growing cyber challenge as states try to balance the opportunities afforded by the digital economy – a significant driver of economic and technological progress – with the issues raised due to the increased sophistication of cyber threats in an increasingly networked world and their links to other challenges such as terrorism and fake news.
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