SMU Master of Applied Information Systems part-time student Pamela Chua was once an enforcement officer with the Central Narcotics Bureau. On top of her day job as a trade surveillance officer at a bank, Pamela attends twice-weekly classes from 7pm to 10pm and is studying under the National Cybersecurity Postgraduate Scholarship. Offered since 2015, the scholarship is for graduates and working professionals keen on protecting Singapore's cyberspace. One of the modules for her master's degree is information security. She is not discouraged by having to learn alongside "younger and brighter undergraduates", who may have had more exposure to cyber security. She said: "I used to think about (being disadvantaged), but if you look at the bigger picture, we are all working for Singapore – so we should not feel like we are competing against each other, but take comfort that there are such people in Singapore and that we are competing on a greater scale with other countries as well." She hopes that more will come forward to join the field.