Singapore Polytechnic Open House 2014

Singapore Polytechnic Open House 2014

(With SP, It's So Possible)

Jan 09, 2013 - Jan 11, 2013

Singapore Polytechnic
500 Dover Road Singapore Polytechnic
139651
6775 1133

Please visit this URL for more details.

FIVE (5) Things You Probably Didn't Know About Our Course (DISM)

1. DISM is different from secondary school because …
Unlike a typical classroom lesson, lessons here are pretty much hands on! At DISM, we train you to combat cyber crime by putting you through different scenarios of cyber crime. Each scenario has its own set of challenges and you will have to adopt different strategies to solve them. We also have a league competition where students pit their skills against one another and are awarded points on completion of each scenario. Apart from winning points, students often feel a great sense of achievement once they have conquered a scenario!

2. A lot of your time will be spent in …
The Cyber Wargame Centre! As the name suggests, it is literally a game of war in cyberspace. During lessons, you will be given cyber crime scenarios to tackle. In every scenario, there will always be the good guys (defenders), the bad guys (attackers) and the cops (investigators). You will play any one of these roles and will attempt to penetrate enemy defences, defend yourself against intruders, or be the detective to find out how and why the cyber crime took place.

3. A lot of your time will be spent on …
Wargaming! This is where you start looking for loopholes in computer systems - both your own and others. Once you have discovered these loopholes, you’ll then have to figure out how to “patch” these holes up. In the professional world, companies often organise wargames to test the strength of their security network and to plug any gaps that they might find.

4. The fun thing about DISM is …
You’ll get to play the role of cyber cop! By playing detective, you’ll enter a cyber crime situation to find out how and why the crime could have happened. Once you have found the answers, you will then be able to advise people on how to prevent similar situations from happening.

5. To do well in this profession, you must be able to…
Work in a group and under stress! You will often be working in a team to stop cybercrime, so your ability to communicate with your teammates could determine the success or failure of the mission. Also, cybercrimes must be stopped quickly. It is therefore important that you work quickly and not lose focus!

掌握趨勢 具體落實 - 網絡安全學院

信息安全管理文憑課程 講師 姚順強

 

Scholarships and Financial Assistance

One of the important factors in considering which diploma course to select is the financial support. At SP, we understand your needs and we make education as affordable as we can.

Outstanding students in SP get selected for the SP Scholars Programme to challenge, develop and maximise their personal, intellectual and leadership potential. They also get to take part in the SP Outstanding Talent (SPOT) programme which invokes them in global current affairs and grooms them into a new generation of thinkers and leaders. On top of it, SP scholars also receive full tuition fee sponsorship and one-time laptop subsidy!

 Visit our SP website to know more about the Scholarships.

Visit our SP website to know more about the Financial Assistance Scheme.

For potential DISM students, you can also consider to apply for the following scholarships: 

• Red Hat Scholarship
• Integrated Infocomm Scholarship
• National Infocomm Schalarship

10 Reasons to choose SP

1) Choice Courses We've got a wide range of courses to suit your needs and interests - 50, to be exact - including new ones being offered for the first time in the new academic year.

2) Fun CCAs
Boredom's got no room in your life when there're more than 120 student clubs and a host of exiting activities for your to take part in.

3) Happening Campus Life
Six food courts, a range of sports and leisure facilities, and the Student Hub@Moberly; no wonder SP students are always on campus.

4) Well-Recognised Qualifications
Many of our graduates have found that an SP Diploma opens the door to further studies at universities both local and foreign. You too can join their ranks.

5) Good Job Prospects
Two words: Internship Programme. Hands-on practical experience is built into our courses so you can enter the job markets as a skilled employee.

6) Outstanding Facilities
"State-of-the-art" and "industry-standard" often come up when people talk about our learning facilities and resources. We like. You would too.

7) Caring and Helpful Lecturers
No kidding! They're experienced and highly qualified too: 60% have a Master's or PhD.

8) Invaluable Overseas Experience
Austria, Canada, China, Egypt, France, New Zealand - just a handful of the countries where our students have been in the past year. Where've you been lately?

9) Affordable Education
Money's not a big worry. Not with our range of financial assistance options, like tuition grants and study loans. You could also pick up a bursary or a scholarship!

10) Unwavering Dedication to Excellence
Show us what you're made. And we'll show you how to stretch yourself further so you can reach higher.

We make you SPecial

Being a Diploma in Infocomm Security Management (DISM) student gives you the competitive edge for a boost in your future studies and career. You can look forward to an interesting curriculum that covers offensive attacks, defensive methods and investigative skills.

Choose Diploma in Infocomm Security Management (DISM) S54 as your FIRST CHOICE, the BEST IT Security diploma course.

Some more reasons why you should join us:

Learning Through Wargaming

Test your skills against your peers in our newly designed Cyber Wargame Centre (CWC). Build up your defences, launch offensive attacks on your targets, triggering Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attack and delve into the intriguing world of forensics investigation, all in the format of cyber wargame scenarios.

Head start in NUS even before you graduate

Students who meet NUS’ programme criteria can choose join the NUS-Poly Preparatory Programme. This programme gives you the special opportunity to take one NUS module each in your second and third year of study here in SP. Imagine the chance to be immersed in University classes and interact with undergraduates well before your peers! Upon successfully completion of the programme, you will be eligible to enroll into NUS’ Bachelor of Computing degree programme through special admission!!

Get yourself recognised by the industry

Be on top of the game and get recognised by the industry through professional industry certifications. No other institutions are quite as ready as us to give you that extra competitive edge!

Continuing Education and Training

After you graduate from the polytechnic, the learning does not stop here. You can continue to upgrade your skills and knowledge through our newly setup Cyber Security Academy. We really take good care of your training needs; while you are at the polytechnic and after you finish the full-time diploma at the polytechnic!

Certification List

• CompTIA Security+
• EC Council Certified Ethical Hacking
• EC Council Certified Hacking Forensics Investigation
• EC Council Certified Security Analyst
• ThinkSECURE Organizational Systems Security Analyst
• ThinkSECURE Organizational Systems Wireless Auditor
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java Programmer
• Paraben Handheld Forensics Certification
• Red Hat Certified Engineer
• And more...

Best IT SECURITY diploma course

At SP, we provide you with the best IT SECURITY diploma course. See the reasons below:

1) State-of-the-art learning spaces (Cyber Wargame Centre, CWC).
2) Experienced, skilled and caring lecturers.
3) Current and relevant curriculum with holistic education.
4) Unleashed your potentials through wargaming.
5) Ready for work, life and world.
6) Improve your employability and market value.
7) Two qualifications await you: both academic and professional certifications.
8) Yes, DISM (S54) is the right choice for you. The fast track to IT security career/education.

Most importantly, we have high cohort success rate for students who choose to proceed to study with local/overseas universities. If you need more information, come to Singapore Polytechnic Open House 2014.

Train in cyber warfare at S'pore Poly - www.digitalone.com.sg

Information technology professionals who want to be trained in cybersecurity can soon do so at Singapore Polytechnic - the first local institute of higher learning that will offer such courses.

The move comes in the wake of a recent spate of attacks on Singapore websites since mid-October.

The school yesterday launched the Cyber Security Academy, which will conduct courses starting in January next year.

The academy will initially provide two cybersecurity courses taught by trainers from IT firm Ixia, which specialises in security. The polytechnic lecturers will also teach courses in future.

For more details, please visit this URL.

新加坡工院为IT专才开设首个网络保安学院 - news.omy.sg

Please visit this URL for more details.

Opening Address of the Cyber Security Academy by Ms Jacqueline Poh, MD of IDA

A Secure Cyber Environment for A Better Quality of Life.

Opening Address by Ms Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, at the Opening of the Cyber Security Academy,

"This underscores the importance of developing our cyber security human capital, which is a key thrust of the National Cyber Security Masterplan launched in July. Under the Masterplan, we will offer more scholarships to encourage students to specialise in cyber security and work with Singapore's IHLs to offer infocomm security courses and degree programmes. We also welcome initiatives from the educational and private sectors that will help Singapore increase its pool of cyber security professionals and upgrade their competencies to meet fast evolving challenges.

I am pleased, therefore to see this Cyber Security Academy take us a step forward toward this objective. First, it will cater to those new to the field, such as students and individuals seeking a mid-career change. Second, it will help upgrade the skills of existing cyber security professionals and third, it will hone the skills of companies' cyber security staff through cyber security exercises.

The Cyber Security Academy will be an important contributor towards nurturing more highly-skilled cyber security experts for Singapore and we hope it will inspire other initiatives in this field. But even as we strive to train more cyber security experts, this education must be accompanied by appropriate ethics instructions to ensure that they do not use their new-found skills for nefarious purposes. While many characteristics of the Internet can tempt you into thinking that it is a different sort of realm where different rules apply, Internet is far from being isolated from the physical world. In Singapore as in many countries, the authorities view computer misuse and cybercrime very seriously and hold perpetrators liable for real-world penalties."

For the full opening address, please visit this URL.

New academy launched to train IT professionals in cyber security - video clip @ channelnewsasia.com

18 Dec 2013. New academy launched to train IT professionals in cyber security.

To view the video clip, please visit this URL (clip the "Video" tab).

DISM lecturer, Samson Yeow, on ChannelNewsAsia.

Singapore Polytechnic opens first Cyber Security Academy - www.futuregov.asia

19 Dec 2013. Singapore Polytechnic opens first Cyber Security Academy.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) yesterday launched the country’s first Cyber Security Academy among Institutes of Higher Learning. The Academy will allow government organisations to test the resiliency of their IT systems against cyber attacks with a comprehensive suite of cyber defence assessment services.

The establishment of the Academy is in line with the Infocomm Development Authority’s National Cyber Security Masterplan 2018 which aims to address the threat posed by the rising number of sophisticated cyber attacks.

For more details, please visit this URL.

New academy launched to train IT professionals in cyber security - channelnewsasia.com

18 Dec 2013. A new academy aimed at training IT professionals in cyber security has been launched.

The Cyber Security Academy, housed at Singapore Polytechnic, is the result of deal with Ixia Asia-Pacific.

Speaking at the academy's launch on Wednesday, Ixia Asia-Pacific vice president and general manager Naveen Bhat said the threat of cyber security is increasing.

"Modern cyber attack is like a tropical storm -- the scale and impact are hard to predict," he said.

For more details, please visit this URL.

SP launches academy to train adult learners cyber security skills - news.asiaone.com

18 Dec 2013. SP launches academy to train adult learners cyber security skills.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) today launched the first and only Cyber Security Academy amongst Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) in Singapore. The Academy will allow corporate and government organisations to test the resiliency of their IT systems against cyber-attacks with a comprehensive suite of cyber-defence assessment services.

It will also provide Continuing Education and Training (CET) courses to working professionals, allowing them to keep ahead of technology or to seek a new career in infocomm securityAt the same time, the Academy will help to address the shortage of IT security professionals faced by the industry. According to the Ministry of Communications and Information, there were only 1,200 IT security specialists in 2012 and this represents 0.8 per cent of the 144,300 infocomm workers in Singapore.

For details, please visit this URL.

Singapore Polytechnic launches Cyber Security Academy

18 Dec 2013. Singapore Polytechnic launches Singapore’s first Cyber Security Academy amongst Institutes of Higher Learning to provide cyber-defence assessment services and training.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) today launched the first and only Cyber Security Academy amongst Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) in Singapore. The Academy will allow corporate and government organisations to test the resiliency of their IT systems against cyber-attacks with a comprehensive suite of cyber-defence assessment services. It will also provide Continuing Education and Training (CET) courses to working professionals, allowing them to keep ahead of technology or to seek a new career in infocomm security.

Mr Tan Choon Shian, Principal/CEO of
Singapore Polytechnic delivering
the opening speech.

Guest-of-honour, Ms Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director,
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)

Mr Naveen Bhat, Vice President and General Manager,
Asia Pacific, Ixia.

Ms Poh delivering her speech to the audience.

Ms Poh and Mr Tan, launching the Cyber Security Academy.

SP senior management and industry guests.

Cyber Security Academy.

Mr Bob DuCharme, Principal Professional Services Engineer
of Ixia, presenting to the industry guests.

Ixia's training information on SOC.

  

 

Singapore Poly launches Singapore's first Cyber Security Academy - news.xin.msn.com

18 Dec 2013. Singapore Poly launches Singapore's first Cyber Security Academy.

The Singapore Polytechnic has launched the first Cyber Security Academy in Singapore to address the shortage of IT security professionals in the industry.

One highlight is a five-day Continuing Education and Training or CET programme that is open to those from the IT sector.

This will equip working professionals with skills in conducting cyber-security operations.

Housed in SP's existing Cyber Wargame Centre, the course will be conducted by SP and Ixia, an IT firm specialising in cybersecurity.
For more details, please visit this URL.

Singapore Polytechnic launches Cyber Security Academy - 938LIVE

18 Dec 2013. A new academy aimed at training IT professionals in cyber security has been launched.

The Cyber Security Academy, housed at Singapore Polytechnic, is the result of a deal with Ixia Asia-Pacific.

The five-day course gives students hands-on training in cyber security defences.

It is conducted jointly by Singapore Poly lecturers and Ixia, a company which specialises in IT security.

Please visit this  URL for more details.

Singapore Polytechnic launches academy to train adult learners cyber security skills - straitstimes.com

18 Dec 2013. Singapore Polytechnic launches academy to train adult learners cyber security skills.
By Amelia Teng.

Singapore Polytechnic launched on Wednesday an educational institute for IT professionals and adult learners looking to upgrade or learn skills in cyber security.

For a start, the Cyber Security Academy as it is called, will provide two courses conducted by trainers from the school's key partner, Ixia, an IT firm that specialises in security.

For more details, please visit this URL.

Launch of Singapore's First Cyber Security Academy

18 Dec 2013. Singapore Polytechnic launches Singapore’s first Cyber Security Academy amongst Institutes of Higher Learning to provide cyber-defence assessment services and training.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) today launched the first and only Cyber Security Academy amongst Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) in Singapore. The Academy will allow corporate and government organisations to test the resiliency of their IT systems against cyber-attacks with a comprehensive suite of cyber-defence assessment services. It will also provide Continuing Education and Training (CET) courses to working professionals, allowing them to keep ahead of technology or to seek a new career in infocomm security.

At the same time, the Academy will help to address the shortage of IT security professionals faced by the industry. According to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, there were only 1,200 IT security specialists in 2012 and this represents 0.8 per cent of the 144,300 infocomm workers in Singapore.

The establishment of the Academy is also in line with the National Cyber Security Masterplan 2018 by the Infocomm Development Authority. Through the many programmes, the Masterplan aims to address the threat posed by the rising number of sophisticated cyber-attacks, exacerbated by the shortage of cyber-security experts needed to mitigate them. This is done through the development of human and intellectual capital and working with IHLs by incorporating cyber-security into curriculum programmes.

Housed in SP’s existing Cyber Wargame Centre, the Academy was conceived with a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in September 2013 between SP and Ixia. This marks SP as the first IHL in South East Asia to be equipped with Ixia’s flagship BreakingPoint security test solutions. This will allow the simulation of realistic large-scale cyber-attacks of up to 7.5 million users to assess the resiliency of IT systems against such attacks. One such common cyber-attack is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which aims to overload a website by injecting malicious high-volume traffic.

Mr Naveen Bhat, VP and GM of Ixia Asia-Pacific said, “We are very pleased to be a part of this collaborative effort with SP to help raise Singapore’s capability to withstand the increasing threat from cyber-attacks. Ixia believes that the launch of this new facility will offer students and IT security professionals the most realistic environment to train and prepare for the increasing number of cyber-attacks we are seeing in Singapore and ASEAN”

The five-day basic CET course conducted by the Academy will see participants undergoing hands-on training in theoretical and practical cyber-security concepts as part of Ixia’s unique ‘Cyber Range Essentials’ curriculum.

The basic CET course will equip IT professionals and adult learners with the knowledge and skills in effectively conducting offensive and defensive cyber-security operations, empowering them to play an integral role in their organisation’s cyber-security efforts.

Professionals and organisations can continue with an advanced CET course to gain a deeper understanding of using a safe virtual environment for cyber-warfare training and cyber-technology development.

Mr Liew Chin Chuan, Course Manager for Diploma in Infocomm Security Management said, “With this new set-up, course participants will now have the first-hand appreciation of large-scale cyber-attacks and the latest threats. Our staff will also be empowered to impart such critical knowledge to their students, which will enhance their knowledge and thus empowering them to deal with real-world cyber-security threats”.

Moving forward, other industry partners such as e-COP and ST Electronics will also make use of the Academy to conduct other relevant courses, catering to the demands of the growing cyber-security industry.

THE END

 For more information, please contact:
 

Tan Jiunn Ngee Corporate Communications Dept T: 6772 1347 M: 9841 4206 E: tan_jiunn_ngee@sp.edu.sg

Marilyn Tan Corporate Communications Dept T: 6772 1350 M: 9011 9931 E: marilyn_tan_ai_mei@sp.edu.sg

 

About Singapore Polytechnic (www.sp.edu.sg)

Established in 1954, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is Singapore’s first polytechnic. It has 10 schools that offer 49 full-time diploma courses for close to 16,000 students. SP has adopted a proven creative teaching and learning framework and it offers students a holistic, authentic and industry-relevant curriculum, innovative and vibrant learning spaces, and enriching overseas programmes. 

The Polytechnic is committed to producing competent and versatile graduates, who are also imbued with sound values, so that they can be work ready, life ready and world-ready. Among the network of more than 170,000 SP alumni are successful entrepreneurs, top executives in multinational and public-listed corporations, and well-known professionals across various industries and leaders in government.

SP is the first polytechnic to be awarded the President’s Award for the Environment in 2010 and the President's Social Service Award in 2011.

Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/singaporepolytechnic or Twitter at http://twitter.com/SingaporePoly.


About Ixia
Ixia develops amazing products so its customers can connect the world. Ixia helps its customers provide an always-on user experience through fast, secure delivery of dynamic, connected technologies and services. Through actionable insights that accelerate and secure application and service delivery, Ixia’s customers benefit from faster time to market, optimized application performance and higher-quality deployments. Learn more at http://www.ixiacom.com.

Singapore Polytechnic Open House 2014

Singapore Polytechnic Open House 2014

(With SP, It's So Possible)

 

 Jan 09, 2013 - Jan 11, 2013
Singapore Polytechnic
500 Dover Road Singapore Polytechnic
139651
6775 1133

Please visit this URL for more details.

Wanted: Cybersecurity experts, data analysts - straitstimes.com

12 December 2013. "Singapore is short of cybersecurity experts, a gap made even more acute by the recent hacking of government websites.

But the Government is moving to plug the shortage by giving more scholarships for such degrees and diplomas, and getting tertiary institutions to include cybersecurity in the curriculum and have it as a specialist track in degree programmes."

- Source: www.straitstimes.com

Singapore Polytechnic's Diploma in Infocomm Security Management  (DISM) is a diploma (started in 2006) with the aim to train cybersecurity practitioners to meet the demand of the market.

Please visit this URL for more details.

ThinkSECURE's OSSA Certification Examination

Ten DISM Year 2 and three Year 3 students passed the ThinkSECURE's Organizational Systems Security Analyst® (OSSA) Certification Examination. The course cum practical exam was conducted by DMIT lecturers during the September vacation.

Congratulations to them!

Year 2
Daniel Tan Jia Wang
Edric Teo Jin Kai
Goh Wei Jie
Koh Zheng Wei
Liauw Shi Neng Edwin
Muhammad Asri Bin Mohamed Ali
Muhammad Mustaqiim Bin Muhar
See Toh Sheng Yang
Tan Sheng Quan Bernard
Wilson Neo Yuan Wei

Year 3
Fiona Chang Wenxin
Han Xing Jie
Suhaimi Bin Roslan

Special workshop conducted by Dr lan Welch

Special workshop conducted by Dr lan Welch

Honeypots@Victoria University

This workshop will provide an overview of client honeypots and their related research challenges as well as current work we are doing in this area. You will also get some hands on experience with attacks delivered via websites and detecting them using client honeypots.

Venue  : T2033 - 4

Date    : 13 Nov 2013 (Wed)

Time    : 3:30 - 6 pm  (Note start time)

Please register for (1) CCA point(s)  (2) Reserve your seats (including those that are attending student dialog session, where special arrangement can be made)

Click here to book your seat!

HITB 2013 War of the World

On 15 Oct 2013, our team of Dystopian Knights (Nikolas, Wei Lin and Jia Hao) boarded a coach for the five and a half hour journey to Kuala Lumpur. Their objective? To take part in the annual Hack-In-The-Box (HITB) Capture-The-Flag competition held on 16 and 17 Oct at the Hotel InterContinental. This will give them the opportunity to pit their skills against international teams from countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands, with some of the teams comprising of infocomm security professionals.

The competition theme this year was “War of the World” with each team defending a “country” and trying to launch attacks against rival countries. The competition organisers also threw in side challenges to keep teams on their toes.

“The challenges were pretty challenging, and we had to crack our heads to figure out how to progress in the competition.” – Jia Hao

“This year's CTF was definitely challenging, especially compared to other competitions held locally in Singapore. The difference being the fact that this competition focused more on lower level challenges, requiring reverse engineering skills.” – Nikolas

“The CTF was pretty tough, as it consisted of challenges requiring lots of reversing. Besides the main challenges, there were also side challenges that require knowledge such as analysing of pcap files, detecting steganography and recovering hidden files and well, even more reversing!” – Wei Lin

Despite the difficulty level, the Dystopian Knights managed to solve several puzzles and challenges, constantly hovering between the fourth, fifth and sixth positions throughout the competition before finally finishing at a good fifth position.

Besides the CTF competition, there was also the CommSec Village, an exhibition area showcasing various security related projects from both open source and commercial organisations.

So how did the team feel about their days spent in Kuala Lumpur?

“The competition allowed me to push myself to my limits and as a result, I improved in various areas of technical skills. In addition, the exposure to many various types of challenges also widened my extent of general knowledge which would prove useful for future CTFs. It also served as an effective platform to interact with professionals in the field and learn from them” – Nikolas

What else did they enjoy about the trip?

“Being able to see the Petronas Twin Towers when I just look out of the hotel windows! As well as the delicious food in KL ! :) ”

A hotel room with a view

SP is proud to invite a speaker from A*STAR to give us a talk and introduction on Data Analytic using Google BigQuery. Please RSVP in the following link below for those that are interested in this talk.

Date: 6th Nov 2013 (Wednesday of week 4)
Time: 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Venue: LT18B
Topic: Data Analytics using Google BigQuery – Opportunities for Real-time Large-scale Security Analytics in the Cloud
By: Dr Krishnan(Lab Head Institute for Infocomm Research,A*STAR,Singapore)

Registration link: http://tinyurl.com/qz279ga
CCA points will be given for those who will attend the talk,
Thanks,

Failing Forward workgroup

The BIHC (DMIT, CASS and SB) Failing Forward workgroup is organising a student workshop on 30 October 2013, 3.15pm to 5.15pm at MLT12. The workshop aims to provide students with the understanding of what is Failing Forward to Success and to create a culture of respect, forgiveness and the learning from failures. Come and get ideas on how we can inculcate the spirit of resilience into learning.

Details of the event:
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Date: 30 October 2013, Wednesday
Time: 3.15pm - 5.15pm
Venue: MLT12

Light refreshment will be served and students can collect a goodie bag at the end of the event. Don't miss this!

Click here to register

GovernmentWare (GovWare) 2013

The GovernmentWare (GovWare) 2013 organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was held from 1 to 3 Oct 2013. This year, the theme was "Defining the Next Generation Cyber Defence Strategies" to reflect the need to devise effective cyber defence strategies, including better international collaborations and tighter legislative controls, to protect critical infrastructure and information.

The Guest-of-honour was Mr Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs & Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In his keynote, he mentioned the setup of Advanced Cyber Security Training Facility in 2014 by SITSA and Temasek Polytechnic. The partnership was sealed during GovWare 2011 through an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed.

Singapore Polytechnic is the first academic institute to establish the Cyber Wargame Centre (CWC) in January 2013.With the intense interests in building cyber ranges and cyber security facilities in Singapore to train more IT security professionals, we hope to have a more secure cyber space.

GOVERNMENTWARE 2013 and sponsors.

(From L to R): Mr Masagos (Senior Minister of State, MHA & MFA),
Mr Leong Jian Hao (DISM Year-3 student),
Mr Liew Chin Chuan (DISM Course Chair) and
Mr Bai Jia Cheng (DISM Year-3 student).

Building model of Cyber shock.

4th Singapore Cyber Conquest, where IHL students gathered to
compete in the IT security tournament.

Partnering with Ixia Technologies International Limited

The Diploma in Infocomm Security Management, Singapore Polytechnic (SP-DISM) is an official partner with Ixia Technologies International Limited.

Both parties signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on 25th September 2013 at the Cyber Wargame Centre (CWC), Singapore Polytechnic.

The Memorandum of Cooperation Signing Ceremony
@ Cyber Wargame Centre (CWC), Singapore Polytechnic.

L to R: Mr Ganesh Narayanan (Senior Regional Sales Manager, Ixia),
Mr Naveen Bhat (VP and GM-APAC, Ixia), Ms Georgina Phua (DMIT Director)
and Mr Liew Chin Chuan (DISM Course Chair)

The partnership provides the opportunity for students of SP-DISM to improve their knowledge in the field of cyber security through the learning of Ixia's Cyber Range products including Breaking Point. Others include internship opportunities, sponsorship of book prizes, collaboration projects, etc.

About Ixia Technologies International Limited
Ixia is a globally traded public company headquartered in California and operating in around 30 countries with 1400 employees worldwide. Ixia provides test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia’s test solutions are used to verify that converged IP networks operate reliably under load and are secure from threats. Ixia's key customers include manufacturers of network equipment such as Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent, service providers such as NTT and Deutsche Telekom, and many enterprises and government agencies.

Partnering with EDGIS

The Diploma in Infocomm Security Management, Singapore Polytechnic (SP-DISM) is an official partner with Edgis to promote cyber security awareness and sharing culture among security professionals, enthusiasts, and students.

 

The partnership provides the opportunity for students of SP-DISM to improve their knowledge in the field of cyber security through the engagement with Edgis.

 

For more info, please visit this URL.

 

 

ITSP Day 2013

7 Aug 2013. Today is the DISM InfoSec Project Development and Management (ITSP) Day. The third-year students are showcasing their completed final year projects at the Cyber Wargame Centre (CWC). There are a total of fourteen (14) projects being showcased at the CWC.

This year, we have seen a wide range of projects from wireless/bluetooth security, behavioural malware analysis, detection of masqueraded codes, web-based application attacks & analysis, windows 8 security, security on Internet-of-Things, etc. We also have seen many project sponsors, lecturers and students from year-1 and year-2 participated in the event.

DISM Year-3 students (1).

DISM Year-3 students (2)

Students' presentation during ITSP Day.

Ms Georgina Phua, DMIT Director with students.

Mr Ji Peng Xiang, DMIT lecturer with students.

Mr Low Jin Kiat, DMIT lecturer with students.

Mr Kenny Seah, DMIT Deputy Director with students.

Ms Wendy Lee, DMIT Deputy Director with students.

Not all cards' magnetic stripes to be deactivated - straitstimes.com

Some banks to exempt frequent travellers and those residing abroad.
By Jessica Lim, Consumer Correspondent, The Straits Times.

Several banks will not deactivate the magnetic stripes on local credit and debit cards that have been used overseas at least once in the past year.

But it is understood that the new rule to reduce fraud, which consumers have criticised for its inconvenience, will still hit most users here.

"Anyone can buy an electronic reader to extract the information from the stripe, then clone cards for use," said Mr Samson Yeow, a senior lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic's school of digital media and infocomm technology.

For the full article, please go to StraitsTimes.com.

National Infocomm Security Competition 2013 (Updates)

26 Jul 2013. During the recent Information Security Seminar 2013, the Guest-Of-Honour Dr Yaacob was speaking at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre.

This event was jointly organised by the Infocomm Development Authority, Cyber Security Awareness Alliance and the Association of Information Security Professionals. The aim of the event was to provide thought leadership on infocomm security and to promote greater understanding of the key infocomm security issues and challenges faced by public and private sector organisations.

At the end of his speech, Dr Yacob also gave out the plaque to the winning team of the National Infocomm Security Competition from Singapore Polytechnic.

From L to R: Miss Tan Shi Hui, Mr Yang Xu Dong
and Miss Alicia Dee.

Once again, congratulation to the winning team from Singapore Polytechnic.

National Cyber Security Masterplan 2018

SINGAPORE - The rising sophistication of cyberattacks that can even disrupt the operations of key infocomm infrastructure - such as those in the banking, transport, energy and public sectors - is a potential threat to Singapore.

This is made worse by a global shortage of highly-skilled infocomm-security professionals who can defend against such attacks.

So, Singapore is embarking on a five-year National Cyber Security Masterplan to boost the number of such security experts here and bolster its defences against cyber threats.

For the full articles, please visit this URL.

SAF sets up new "cyber army" to fight digital threats.

Jun 30, 2013. THE Singapore Armed Forces will bring together its cyber-security experts under a new command to wage digital warfare and beef up its defences against online threats that can cripple the military's computer networks.

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National Infocomm Security Competition 2013

Our DMIT (School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology) and SB (School of Business) students had done us proud in the National Infocomm Security Competition 2013 held on 17 June 2013 . The event was organised by GoSafeOnline.Sg and supported by iDA, this competition aimed to promote mental dexterity among students by challenging them to think like an IT security expert. In addition, students were required to propose feasible and cost effective IT security solutions to real world enterprise security case studies within a limited duration of time. Participants from various IHLs had to go through 2 rounds of competition:

• Preliminary round (25 May 2013):  The participating teams were given 8 hours to examine the case study and developed their IT security proposals in word document format onsite.
• Final round (15-16 June 2013):  The final round was a two-day onsite event. Teams that qualified for the final round would be given 8 hours to examine the final round case study and develop IT security proposals and presentation slides for presentation to the panel of judges on the subsequent day.

Two students from the DMIT and one student from SB emerged as the winner for the competition. The group consisted of:

• Yang Xu Dong (Diploma in Infocomm Security Management, DISM)
• Tan Shi Hui (Diploma in Business Information Technology, DBIT)
• DFI: Alicia Dee (Diploma in Financial Informatics, DFI)

From L to R: Miss Tan Shi Hui, Ms Georgina Phua (DMIT Director), Mr Yang Xu Dong,

Miss Alicia Dee and Mr Liew Chin Chuan (DISM Course Chair).

The panel of judges.

Group photograph.

We congratulate the team for winning the competition and they walked away with three thousand dollars cash prize (S$3,000). The students have done us proud. Keep up the good work....

 

SP Graduation 2013

16 May 2013. “A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! That's Graduation!” -- Author unknown.

Another milestone is being marked at the SP Graduation 2013. We have a total number of 60 students from the Diploma in Infocomm Security Management (DISM) completed their 3-year course. Together with the graduands from other diploma courses, they will be receiving their Diploma certificate at the ceremony.

 

In addition, graduation awards are given out to DISM students who have completed and excelled in the course of study, namely:

Graduand awarded Gold Medal
YANG XUDONG

Graduand awarded Silver Medal
ANG KAH ENG

Graduands awarded Diploma with Merit
CHAN JIAN HUI
FONG JIA SHENG
DARRYL SW
JEREMY HENG WEN MING

DISM Gold Medalist, Yang Xudong.

DISM graduands taking a group photograph.

Once again, congratulations to all the DISM Diploma graduates!