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With a planned investment of 17.7 million Euros move Singapore cybersecurity high on the agenda. The coming three year the city state want to do its best round its network and communication-infrastructure safely to put of attack through hackers and terrorists.

The Infocomm Security Masterplan became Tuesday proposed through the ministry of Defense of Singapore, a city state that many ICT-commit houses. That large dependence of the economy on the internet is then also the motive behind the large investment in cybersecurity.

Central state the foundation of a National Cyber-threat Monitoring Center, An organization that the internet hold must 24 hour on 24 in the holes. The experts will self among many concentrate on worms, viruses, phishing-fraud and hackattacklen that a threat form for Singaporese commit and citizens. According to data of the authorities itson two inhabitants asset on the internet.

On longer term, the country want to develop also a 'benchmark' to test the effectiviteit of protections products.

The 17.7 million Euros do not goes only to the monitors of the center, that work will next to the CERT-team of Singapore. The money is divided further about different agencies of the Singaporese authorities and also will be spent at training and information.

Eileen Yu, CNet Asia.