SINGAPORE (Oct 26): As companies, industries and economies become more digitalised, there is a need to build up an appropriate security assurance framework to mitigate risks of a larger “digital attack surface” as people work, play, learn and transact online. 

The same improvements in technology that have helped lift efficiency and standards of living are exploited by bad actors too. The growing intensity of digitalisation has the unfortunate side effect of opening up new ways for attacks to take place.

“The old ways are not going to be good enough in terms of how we consider and whether we really take cybersecurity seriously,” says Huawei USA chief security officer Andy Purdy. “We have to make sure that cybersecurity is in fact a common concern,” said Purdy at the Singapore International Cyber Week 2020 ... (click on link for full story on theedgesingapore.com).