Singapore has released a new bill on cyber security, aiming to set up a legal framework to reduce risks of cyber attacks in the country, local newspaper Straits Times reported on July 11.
Hanoi(VNA) - Singapore has released a new bill on cyber security, aiming to set up alegal framework to reduce risks of cyber attacks in the country, localnewspaper Straits Times reported on July 11.
The bill, to which the country’s Cyber SecurityAgency (CSA) spent almost two years working on, aims to remove lines betweencyber attack threats and public and private sectors by improving the criticalinformation infrastructure (CII), including administration systems of banking,telecommunication, transportation, healthcare and essential energy services.
It allows the CSA to conduct investigation oncean attack occurs while mandating affected companies or organisations to shareinformation with the CSA.
The bill also confers power on the CSA's chiefas Commissioner of Cybersecurity to investigate threats and relevantissues to ensure essential services are not disrupted in the event of a cyberattack.
The first cyber security bill includes proactivemeasures to minimise disruption to essential services when such attacks happen,including notifying the commissioner of the CII suffering a cyber-securityattack.
The CII owners are asked to report the cyberattack within a few hours, otherwise they will be fined up to 100,000 Singaporedollars (72,220 USD) or imprisoned for maximum 10 years.
The draft bill is released for publicconsultation until August 3 and will be submitted to the parliament to discusslater this year. -VNA
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