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Monetary Authority of Singapore Consults on Cyber Hygiene Notice

Yuet Ming Tham and Han Ming Ho
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*This article was originally published by DataGuidance in October 2018.

On 6 September 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (‘MAS’) issued a consultation paper on its draft notice on cyber hygiene (‘the Notice’) which will require financial institutions operating in Singapore to implement a set of fundamental controls to raise their overall level of cyber resilience. Han Ming Ho and Yuet Ming Tham, partners at Sidley, discuss and focus on the key features of the draft Notice.

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Yuet Ming Tham

Singapore, Hong Kong

ytham@sidley.com

Han Ming Ho

Singapore

hanming.ho@sidley.com

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