SINGAPORE: Cybersecurity experts said that while procedures exist to vet and evaluate third-party software, government organisations Protocols should have looked into Mobile Guardian’s requirements in greater detail.
Early this week, the Ministry of Education declared that Mobile Guardian would be removed from all students’ personal learning devices following a global cybersecurity breach that affected roughly 13,000 secondary school students from 26 Singaporean secondary schools.
With exams approaching, many students were concerned about losing access to their notes after the perpetrator remotely erased their devices.
In a previous incident that occurred in April, a data security breach at Mobile Guardian allowed access to the private information of 127 schools’ employees and parents.
With the help of a device management app called Mobile Guardian, parents can control how much time their children spend on their devices by limiting what apps and websites they can use. This is a question of supply chain security and vendor management. GovTech or MOE underestimated the risk of the system and did not ensure that the controls put in place by Mobile Guardian were appropriate,” said Mr Reed.
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