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Mitigating challenges in an evolving cyber threat landscape
Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal,
6
(2),
168-177
(2022)
Abstract
This paper gives a snapshot of the current state of cyber security and public awareness, using Singapore as an example of a well-connected economy. Public awareness focuses on sharing common cyber security best practices, which are essential in reducing the risk of cyber security breaches. The paper then explores how current cyber threats have responded to the spread of public awareness, by evolving in ways that can overcome the common cyber security best practices or can even exploit them in some cases. It goes on to describe how the countermeasures to these evolved cyber threats must also evolve in turn and suggests processes and technologies which can be developed to mitigate these evolved cyber threats.
Keywords: cyber threats; Asia; best practices; phishing; multi-factor authentication
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Author's Biography
Benjamin Ang leads the Cyber and Homeland Defence programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), a policy research think tank that is part of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. His previous education and experience includes time as a litigation lawyer, legal counsel in technology companies, chief information officer in a major law firm, technology consultant and law lecturer in data privacy, computer misuse and media law. The United Nations – Singapore Cyber Program (UNSCP) has appointed him as a trainer for capacity-building workshops at the ASEAN-Singapore Cyber Centre of Excellence (ASCCE) and he recently gave oral submissions at the special stakeholders’ session, third substantive session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (UN OEWG) on security of and use of information and communications technologies 2021–25.
