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Due to the intensity of the audit, there are limited resources available. Please confirm your engagement early.The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has mandated that all Participating Licensees under the Singapore SMS Sender ID Registry (SSIR) Regime are to implement the newly-established Cybersecurity Standards by 1 October 2025. As part of this directive, companies are required to undergo an independent cybersecurity audit to ensure adherence to these standards. This is important in minimising the risk of malicious actors exploiting the SMS service.
At Crowe Singapore, we understand the complexities of cybersecurity compliance and the critical importance of safeguarding digital infrastructure. Based on IMDA’s external audit firm requirements, our team is eligible to perform both the mandatory and optional requirements set out by the Cybersecurity Standards:
Provides objective assessments of an organisation's systems, processes, and controls. This helps identify compliance gaps, inefficiencies, and risks, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards and best practices. It enhances transparency, accountability, and trust, supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement across financial, operational, and cybersecurity domains.
Identifies, evaluates, and addresses security weaknesses across systems and applications using Next-Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV). It ensures timely deployment of patches and updates to mitigate risks, prevent exploitation, and maintain system integrity. This proactive approach strengthens an organisation’s security posture and supports regulatory compliance and operational resilience.
Establishes and maintains a framework of policies, procedures, and controls to guide an organisation’s cybersecurity strategy and aligned with ISO standards. It ensures alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices, promoting accountability, risk management, and informed decision-making to protect critical assets and support long-term security maturity.
Providing structured processes to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents. It minimises disruption by ensuring timely containment, investigation, and resolution of threats. This in turn enhances organisational resilience, supports regulatory compliance, and helps prevent future incidents through lessons learned and continuous improvement.
Ensuring systems, networks, and applications are securely set up and efficiently managed. This includes applying best practices for system settings, user permissions, and ongoing maintenance. This supports operational stability, reduces vulnerabilities, and ensures alignment with security policies and compliance requirements.
Provides secure, reliable data protection by regularly creating copies of critical information and systems. In the event of data loss, corruption, or cyber incidents, it enables swift recovery to minimise downtime and disruption, ensuring business continuity and supporting compliance with data protection standards.
Focuses on protecting an organisation’s core IT environment, including servers, networks, and applications. It involves implementing security controls, monitoring, and threat prevention measures to defend against attacks, ensuring system integrity, availability, and resilience, supporting secure and uninterrupted business operations.
Identifies, assesses, and mitigates cybersecurity risks across an organisation’s third-party vendors and supply chain. It ensures that partners meet security standards, reducing exposure to threats like data breaches or service disruptions, and strengthens overall security posture and supports regulatory and contractual compliance.
A cybersecurity strategy that enhances system resilience by using diverse technologies, configurations, or approaches. By avoiding uniformity, it reduces the risk that a single vulnerability or exploit can compromise an entire system. This layered and varied defense makes it harder for attackers to succeed across multiple components.
Educating employees about cyber threats, safe online practices, and organisational security policies. It strengthens the human layer of defense by reducing risks from phishing, social engineering, and user error. Regular training empowers staff to identify threats and respond appropriately, fostering a security-conscious workplace culture.
Foundational guidelines used to build secure systems and applications. Key principles include:
Least Privilege – Granting users and systems only the access they need.
Defense in Depth – Layering multiple security measures.
Fail-Safe Defaults – Genying access by default.
Separation of Duties – Dividing responsibilities to prevent misuse.
Minimize Attack Surface – Reducing entry points for attackers.
Secure by Design – Integrating security from the start of development.
Open Design – Relying on transparency, not secrecy, for security.
These principles help ensure systems remain resilient against threats throughout their lifecycle.
We bring deep expertise in security governance, compliance frameworks, and risk management. We have successfully guided numerous organisations through stringent regulatory requirements and enhanced their security postures against evolving threats.
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