Adelaide-based information security specialist Vectra Corporation has scored a major share of the Singapore public sector’s multi-million-dollar annual spend on information security services.

Vectra Corporation's Singapore branch, Vectra Information Security, has been selected to provide information security services to the Singapore public sector.

Vectra is a preferred provider for the Supply of IT Security Services for Singapore Government ministries and departments, statutory boards and organs of state. The two-year contract started in June this year. This is the second time Vectra has won a place on this tender, which is managed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and awarded by the Ministry of Finance.

Vectra Information Security director of business development Eugene Chai said Vectra had won the business on the strength of its expertise and experience. “They looked at our track record, got feedback from current government customers, evaluated our methodologies and examined our strength in the other sectors such as financial services and telecommunications,” he said.

“The tender aims to simplify the process of public sector agencies selecting creditable information security service providers. Our skillset is strong in government while our experience working with banks and trading houses in the financial services sector gave us extra strength.”

Chai said the Singapore Government’s ground-breaking e-government initiatives were driving an increasing demand for information security services across the public sector.

“As they put more transactions online, there is a need to make every transaction secure,” he said. “It will definitely push up expenditure on this type of business because there is a need for an independent party to ensure the right security has been put in place.”