These protocols may include using encryption hardware or software, commercially secured links, or those provided by the embassy. He said representatives from the Ministry of Defense and the Singapore Armed Forces also adopt such practices when attending meetings abroad.
“Even if the host country has to offer such measures [of secured communications]it is doubtful whether foreign participants will use it freely,” Heng added.
One of the officials involved within the conversation was reportedly a general who was staying at a hotel in Singapore throughout the biennial Singapore Airshow. Using the hotel’s wireless web service, he established a web connection to an internet conferencing platform that was suspected to have been hacked.
Referring to the incident, Yio Chu Kang, Member of Parliament for Yip Hon Weng, asked whether it might need an impact on Singapore’s status as a number of military events, and in addition sought to know what measures have been put in place to guard telecommunications infrastructure Singapore during high-traffic events. level of foreign dignitaries.
The German leak occurred after an officer used an unsecured line at a hotel in Singapore
The German leak occurred after an officer used an unsecured line at a hotel in Singapore
Clarifying that his response wouldn’t address any specific incident, Heng said participants in international events and conferences, including those involving military personnel and government leaders and officials, don’t expect the host country to supply secure communications facilities, because these are often organized by the participants on their side.
For the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces, “we take a proactive approach to cybersecurity after we attend high-profile events, including those involving high-level foreign dignitaries, and we work closely with event organizers who’ve responsibility for the general cybersecurity of those events” – Heng told parliament.
These proactive efforts include identifying the event’s digital footprint and cybersecurity risk areas, scanning vendor web sites and reviewing the web site and business applications getting used, and developing cybersecurity incident escalation and reporting processes.
“If security vulnerabilities are discovered as a result of these checks, event organizers will be required to remediate them before the event,” Heng said.
“Mindef [the defence ministry] and SAFA [Singapore Armed Forces]however, it does not cover the internal cybersecurity of foreign militaries [and] one-way virtual meetings, which is beyond the scope of these events.”
