Singapore suffered its worst cyber attack in June last year when hackers went into the database of public healthcare cluster SingHealth and stole the personal data of 1.5 million patients and the outpatient prescription information of 160,000 people, including the Prime Minister.
Mr Teo, who is also the Minister-in-charge of Public Sector Data Governance, will be joined by private sector representatives with data security and technology expertise, as well as ministers involved in Singapore's Smart Nation efforts, namely Vivian Balakrishnan, S Iswaran, Chan Chun Sing, and Janil Puthucheary.
The Prime Minister's Office said in a statement that the government has moved to enhance cyber security measures over the years, such as rolling out the Internet Surfing separation policy in 2016 and the disabling of USB ports from being accessed by unauthorised devices in 2017.But the government said it acknowledges that"recent data-related incidents have underlined the urgency to strengthen data security policies and practices in the public sector".