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With a planned investment of 23 million dollars move Singapore cybersecurity high on the agenda. In the coming three year want the country its best do round its network and communication-infrastructure to protect against attack of hackers and terrorists.

HetInfocomm Security Masterplan became Tuesday introduced through the ministry of defense of Singapore, that many ICT accommodates commit-. That large dependence of the economy on the internet is then also the motive behind the robust investment in cybersecurity.

Central state the foundation of a National Cyber-threat Monitoring Center, An organization that the internet hold must 24 hour per day 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 asset on the internet is the half of the inhabitants.

On the long term, the country want to develop also a benchmark to test the effectiviteit of security-products.

The 17.7 million Euros do not goes exclusively to the monitor activities of the center, that work together goes with the CERT-team of Singapore. A percentage of the money is divided about different agencies of the Singaporese authorities. Also there has been reserved a sum for training and information.

Eileen Yu, CNet Asia.