SINGAPORE - The entire public service will have to conform to a common cyber security framework to safeguard citizens' personal data, beginning with 13 new measures developed after a spate of breaches in the past year.
The technical measures announced on Monday are the first of more to come from a new Public Sector Data Security Review Committee convened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in April this year. More measures, including ways to better manage third-party vendors and train public servants on data security practices to prepare Singapore for a safer digital future, will be revealed later and included in the Committee's final report due in November this year.
And in February, MOH said a computer error had resulted in 7,700 people receiving inaccurate healthcare subsidies when they applied for or renewed their Community Health Assist Scheme cards in September and October last year.