Synopsis

The National Authentication Infrastructure (NAI) project aims to study the feasibility of a common national infrastructure for the identification of individuals, which will be based on secure open standards framework to be developed together with industry support for possible development and publication as a formal Singapore Standard.

The 3rd NAI Industrial Briefing will update public and private sectors on the latest work done with respect to NAI. Updates include the dovetailing of NAI and Singpass, ideas for a standard for Company IDs, and the sharing of other similar developments worldwide.

One major item would be a discussion related to a new standards proposal, known as Intelligent Nation Biometric Access Control document, a set of Singapore Government security standards meant for biometrics systems that includes door access and other applications. Accompanying this, more details will be provided about Smart VIP Lite Lite, a further development in terms of lowering cost for the Smart VIP standards.

Expect to also hear the latest about biometrics and cryptography-related vulnerabilities/problems that implementers need to note.

About the speaker

Chien Siang is the Computer Security Consultant from the Ministry of Home Affairs. He has been working in the Civil Service since 1981. He graduated from a German university as a Data Systems Engineer and also received training from the Siemens Research Laboratory and IBM R&D Laboratory in Boblingen. He has been in the IT management and IT Security field for more than 20 years. During this time, he led numerous national-level IT projects in IT Security and homeland security and had been instrumental in evolving their architecture and the basic mechanisms required. He also invented unique smart card readers, cryptography systems, more efficient protocols and fault tolerant systems.

He was an ex-President of the Singapore Microcomputer Society, a pioneer in the development of microcomputers, a regular speaker for government events and a hobbyist programmer that had created more than 60,000 lines of codes. In addition, he lectures at the National University of Singapore.