Singapore, Jan. 18 -- The Government's smart nation and technology office will roll out new automated systems and accountability measures aimed at reducing IT lapses by ministries, a recurring issue flagged by the Auditor-General's Office (AGO) in recent years.
These will include IT solutions that will review the activity logs of privileged user accounts and flag any unexpected behaviour - such as unauthorised data access - while also automatically removing user accounts and access rights once an officer resigns or changes roles.
Privileged accounts are user accounts with fewer restrictions than for ordinary users, which also make them more likely to be targeted by hackers as such accounts would have deeper access to critical systems an...