Calling all secondary school students! CSA’s Youth Cyber Exploration Programme (YCEP) is back!

In the world of cybercrime, staying ahead of the game is essential. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics and looking for new vulnerabilities and victims to exploit, and ransomware groups are no exception. One group that has risen to the top is LockBit, establishing themselves as the cybercrime kingpin that other ransomware groups have to keep pace with.

A Senior Consultant with CSA’s National Cyber Incident Response Centre (NCIRC), Cheng Ke Jing is team lead of an incident response team, handling incident management and overseeing operational cases handled by the team.

Cloud technology and services continue to be increasingly adopted by organisations and individuals, with public cloud spending forecasted to grow by 20% to US$591.8 billion in 2023, according to market estimates by Gartner.

The Smart Nation Scholarship develops and nurtures technology talents and leaders within public service. Offered by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), Government Technology Agency (GovTech), and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the scholarship provides opportunities for outstanding individuals with a passion in using technology to make a difference, developing them into next-generation leaders who will spearhead our national digital transformation.

In this edition of #WorkinginCSA, Paul Ng – an Assistant Director with CSA’s Telecom Cybersecurity Programme Office (TCPO) – speaks about securing Singapore’s 5G networks and working with different stakeholders to defend Singapore’s telecommunications systems against cyber-attacks.

Artificial Intelligence research firm OpenAI‘s revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT has made waves since its launch on 30 November 2022. Unlike most chatbots, which are generally limited to answering simple queries and inflicting varying degrees of frustration on their users, ChatGPT can provide comprehensive information on virtually every topic known (before 2022), as well as write, analyse, and help improve text and code.