The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has held its second Exercise Cyber Star in a government-wide effort to put Singapore’s cyber incident management and emergency response plans to the test.
The scope of Exercise Cyber Star was expanded this time round to cover all 11 designated critical information infrastructure* (CII) sectors in Singapore. Seven sectors – namely aviation, healthcare, land transport, maritime, media, security & emergency and water – were exercised alongside the banking and finance, energy, government, and infocomm sectors that were exercised in 2016. The exercise comprised a series of complex scenario planning sessions, workshops and tabletop discussions before culminating in a final exercise.
More than 200 participants, comprising sector leads and CII owners from the 11 sectors participated in the exercise. Scenarios covered different types of cyberattacks targeting essential services, including web defacement, widespread data exfiltration malware infections, ransomware hits, distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks and cyber-physical attacks. Exercise participants developed and tested their incident management and remediation plans in response to these simulated attacks.
David Koh, Chief Executive, CSA, said, “These exercises are important in bringing all our critical sectors together to strengthen our incident response plans and enable better cross-sector coordination. With greater interconnectivity, and proliferation of cyber threats, the ability of our critical sectors to respond promptly to attacks is vital.”
*CII sectors are responsible for the continuous delivery of essential services which Singapore relies on.
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