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Industry News: ESG5

    Temasek Flags Challenges of Investing in Cybersecurity

    2019-10-24

    Asian Investor: With cybersecurity challenges set to keep mounting, investing into the area seems a sensible move, not least because it offers asset owners a potential inside track to protecting themselves.

    But Asia-based investors looking to do so face several hurdles, in addition to the high current valuations, something Singapore state investor Temasek is well aware of.

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    Why it Pays Asset Owners to Invest in Cybersecurity

    2019-10-17

    Asian Investor: Cyber criminals continue to develop a variety of smart tools to plot hacking schemes and data breaches in today’s intricately connected digital world, in which almost everyone’s data is stored, processed and accumulated. Anybody can become a target.

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    MAS Highlights the Need to Manage Cyber Risks

    2019-10-02

    Hubbis: The first key observation raised by the discussion was the acknowledgement of the potential for poor risk culture to contribute to occurrences of cyber incidents. Members of the Cyber Security Advisory Panel (CSAP) advised that the board and senior management of financial institutions should set clear expectations for cyber risk culture, and subsequently monitoring and assessing how well the desired risk management culture is operating across the organisation.

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    Cybersecurity Firms Welcome to Set Up Base in Singapore: Teo Chee Hean

    2019-09-16

    The Strait times: Global cyber security firms, large and small, that set up base in Singapore to grow their businesses and capabilities can tap the Republic's technical prowess, skilled manpower and networks, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said.

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    India Inches Closer to Becoming a Cybersecurity Superpower

    2019-09-02

    Business Standard: The 'Digital India' and 'New India' mission has been offered an essential impetus by an Indian Ethical hacker, Khushhal Kaushik. His passion, drive and burning desire to 'go the extra mile', has helped him strengthen India's stature in the global cyber security industry. Conventionally, western countries have always ruled the cyber security domain.

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    Chinese Hackers Steal 6.8 Million Patient Records from an Indian Healthcare portal

    2019-08-22

    Business Insider: In a startling revelation, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Thursday that China-based hackers broke into a leading Indian healthcare website, stealing 68 lakh records containing key patient and doctor information and credentials.

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    Banks Do Not Report Most Cybercrimes, Says Top Cop

    2019-08-21

    The Times of India: Banks tend to not report most cybersecurity-related incidents faced by them to law enforcement agencies, nor do they share information about breach attempts. As a result, investigators haven’t been able to fully equip themselves to handle and mitigate such cases. 

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    Temasek Ramping Up Focus on Cybersecurity Assets

    2019-08-15

    Asian Investor: The Singaporean state investor remains on the lookout for promising cybersecurity assets to complement its existing platform and provide more than just healthy investment returns.

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    MAS Issues New Rules to Strengthen Cyber Resilience of Financial Industry

    2019-08-06

    MAS: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a set of legally binding requirements to raise the cyber security standards and strengthen cyber resilience of the financial sector. The Notice on Cyber Hygiene sets out the measures that financial institutions must take to mitigate the growing risk of cyber threats.

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    North Korean Cryptocurrency Heists Net Estimated $2 Billion: UN Report

    2019-08-06

    CNN: North Korea earned as much as $2 billion dollars through large-scale cyber attacks to help fund its weapons programs, a United Nations panel alleges in a new report.

    The findings emerged as Pyongyang fired what are believed to be two short-range ballistic missiles early Tuesday, the fourth missile launch in less than two weeks.
     

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