after sitting on my butt for the longest of time, i have finally decided to start logging....just when blogging is no longer the cool thing to do anymore. it took me a lot of courage (and whiskey) to decide to blog as i really have no idea what this will lead to...and also because ben thinks blogging is so web 2.0 (his euphemism for lame).
as a start i'm just going to pen down my thoughts on some recent developments happening in singapore.
a couple of weeks ago, the singapore government announced the formation of SITSA (singapore infocomm technology security agency) as the authoritative government agency responsible for security regulations and enforcement in every sectors of the economy except for telcos and financial institutions. i will touch on these 2 other sectors next time.
i think sitsa is a wonderful idea but too late in the coming. for the longest of time, that three-letter named agency responsible for IT security matters in singapore has been doing absolutely NOTHING as far as real security is concerned. in fact, singapore is in a relatively sorry state of security awareness and culture (relative to the region within a 7 hours flight radius) because of them. according to these people, hacking is bad, a taboo....like masturbation....it should not happen and we should not talk about it at all. i shall not go on lest i break the keyboard.
i hope sitsa will change the whole security environment in singapore and have the other 2 agencies regulating telcos and financial institutions play catch-up. hopefully we will not be the estonia of southeast asia before people starts taking security seriously. like what my old man always said....its too late to start looking for the toilet after you have soiled your pants!
i'm off to lunch now...till then.
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