http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-22/cybersecurity-skills-shortage-looms-in-singapore-southeast-asia.html
By Brian Leonal
Bloomberg.com
June 22, 2014
Singapore’s ability to fight a rising threat from hackers is hindered by a
skills shortage and lack of awareness among companies, according to the
computer security firm that runs a state-supported training center.
“We do see a lack of capability and capacity in skilled professionals, and
that’s partly due to massive demand across the world that stretches an
already small, existing pool of people,” Bryce Boland, Asia Pacific chief
technology officer at Milpitas, California-based FireEye Inc. (FEYE), a
cybersecurity firm, said in an interview in Singapore last week.
Singapore, a global financial center which relies on its image as a safe
and stable location to lure business, has suffered high-profile online
attacks on government websites and security breaches involving companies’
client data in recent months. Cybersecurity risks pose a challenge as the
government steps up efforts to link public facilities and infrastructure
for real-time data in Southeast Asia’s only developed nation.
“Organizations increasingly recognize that the approach toward cyber
security must be organization-wide,” said Lyon Poh, head of IT Assurance
and Security at KPMG LLP in Singapore. “However, they lack people with the
experience to set up a comprehensive cyber security defense system to
promptly detect and respond to cyber threats.”
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