Sending the Right Message About Internet and Security
CENS / Op-Eds
20 JUNE 2016
Ang, Benjamin. "Sending the right message about Internet and security". The Straits Times, June 20, 2016. Accessed June 30, 2016.
Last week, the world heard that the Singapore Government plans to restrict Internet access for all public servants from May next year.
On the one hand, critics have argued that the policy will set Singapore back and that it contradicts our Smart Nation aspirations. On the other hand, cyber security experts have supported the plan to keep secure systems and e-mail segmented away from the Internet. Similar segmentation is already practised in sensitive parts of both private and public sectors such as banking and the military. As businesses, the general public and even other countries are watching this controversial step closely, it is important for us, as a nation and society, to send the right messages about cyber security and Internet access
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