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Interview: Engineering cybersecurity in the AI era of smart cities

14 May 2026

Sponsored by ST Engineering

Lim Woo Lip, Senior Vice President and CTO for Cyber at ST Engineering, explains how AI-driven threats are reshaping national cybersecurity, and why cyber resilience is the true foundation of smart cities.

In this interview, Lim Woo Lip, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cyber at ST Engineering, explores how nations and cities can safeguard their most critical digital and physical systems in an era of AI-powered cyber threats. He explains how ST Engineering embeds cyber resilience into every stage of digital transformation, from IT to IoT, ensuring that vital public services can continue to operate even under attack. Lim also outlines the role of a national-level security operations centre, and how AI and agentic AI are transforming the speed and precision with which threats can be detected, analysed, and contained.

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