Speaker:

YU Chien Siang Computer Security Consultant Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

Date: Time: Venue:

29 January 2007 (Monday) 7:30 - 9:00 pm Conference Hall 2 School of Accountancy Singapore Management University We hope to see you there! Please register online by 26 Jan 2007.

Synopsis

Rapid developments in technology have improved worker’s mobility and hence the empowerment of our road-warriors. This has allowed the dynamic enterprise to adopt flat management structures and knowledge management as its competitiveness strategy. As a result, ubiquitous networking, mobility and adaptive IT capabilities are more sought after than ever before.

But with identity fraud and cyber crime in our midst reaching unprecedented levels and the need for outsourcing – which brings about reduced control despite increased storage and enhanced networking capabilities - the problem of securing digital transactions now takes central stage. Hence, the presentation will describe some of the work done in terms of developing security architectures for large government IT infrastructure, in a manner that will be deployable and appropriate for any modern organisation, including SMEs.

At the micro level, our approach is to invent an open architecture and extensible Personal Security System, known as DORIS (Digital Online Registration and Identification System). By fostering a large user community via open source code sharing and incentives for pilot projects, we hope to ignite a vibrant social ecosystem, which will experiment with a full range of electronic applications, symbolic of the Intelligent Nation 2015 vision. The extensible features of DORIS will be demonstrated.

About the Speaker

Chien Siang is currently a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Home Affairs, giving oversight to national level IT Security for the public sector. He was awarded the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft Scholarship to pursue his studies at a German university and graduated as a Data Systems Engineer. During his study, he received training at the Siemens Research Laboratory and IBM R&D Laboratory in Boeblingen. He has been working in the Civil Service since 1981 and was awarded National Day Honours, The Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1993 and (Silver) Bar in 2004.

He has been active in the fields of IT management and IT Security 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 fundamental mechanisms required. His public appointments include being the Chairman of the Technology/IT Security sub-committee, Public Transport Security Committee (PTSC), Co-chairman of the National Authentication Infrastructure (NAI) Steering Committee, the lead government security consultant for the Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOE) project, member of the National Authentication Framework (NAF) Steering Committee and Co-chairman of the NAF technical sub-committee.

He was an ex-President of the Singapore Microcomputer Society, a pioneer in the exploitation of microcomputers, a regular speaker at government events and a hobbyist programmer who has created more than 60,000 lines of codes. He also invented unique smart card readers that are low cost, cryptography systems, more efficient protocols and fault tolerant systems. In addition, he teaches the course on “Introduction to Cybercrime” in his capacity as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Singapore.