Singapore creates operations hub to beef up cyberdefense

Singapore has created a centralized Cyber Defence Operations Hub for more robust defences for the country's military networks.

The country's defense minister said on Saturday the round-the-clock operations hub will help develop expertise to combat evolving cyber threats, which not only disrupts the military's front and back-end systems, but civilian water and electricity grids, local publication MyPaper reported.

The hub will carry out day-to-day cyberdefense operations to detect, identify, contain and neutralize cyberthreats to the country's military networks, and quickly recover the networks if needed.  "We are beefing up our cyberdefence because that's the next leap forward that we see," Ng said. He added the issue of cyberattacks was a major point made at the Shangri-La security dialogue in Singapore by the U.S. Defense Secretary last month.