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followed a recent spate of attacks on the websites of government and government-affiliated websites.


The tough problem is that "young people do not find the job sexy," the minister said.


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The Straits Times said that the proportion of IT security specialists is shrinking even as demand keeps growing.


Latest official figures show Singapore had 1,200 IT security specialists last year. This is 0.8 percent of the 144,300 infocomm workers. Vacancies grew to 300 last year from 90 in 2011.


The shortage is set to grow as the local cybersecurity market, estimated at 63.7 billion Singapore dollars (51 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011 Nike Air Max Trainer 1 Suomi , is expected to nearly double to about 120 billion Singapore dollars (96 billion U.S. dollars) by 2017.


The global demand for these professionals is rising at around 11 percent a year, research firm Frost & Sullivan said.


This year, 14 of the 70 scholarships from the Infocomm Development Authority