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MALAYSIA BECOMES UN CYBERSECURITY HUB VIA UN AGENCY IMPACT
By Santhia Thevi Panjanadan
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) - Malaysia has become the United Nations' (UN) cybersecurity hub via the official partnership of Cyberjaya-based International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT).
IMPACT is the cybersecurity executing arm of the UN specialised agency, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Cyberjaya, near Malaysia's federal administratvive capital Putrajaya, is the nucleus of the country's Multi-Media Super Corridor.
The ITU has appointed IMPACT to provide cybersecurity assistance and support to its 193 member states and to other organisations in the UN system.
"With the partnership and its specialised agency positions Cyberjaya
squarely as the world's cybersecurity hub, and with this comes exciting new opportunities for Malaysia's digital economy.
"We aim to deploy services to at least 160 countries, an average of 20 per cent increase in providing cybersecurity support over a one-year period from last month through the partnership," Philip Victor, Director for Policy and International Cooperation told Bernama on Thursday.
He said since the partnership was inked in Geneva in May, eight countries have come on board to join IMPACT, a coalition of 136 countries to date.
Victor said cybersecurity has been acknowledged as the fastest-growing segment in the ICT global industry.
With more countries expected to partner, the ITU-IMPACT coalition has become the largest global cybersecurity alliance of its kind.
IMPACT, the world's first global public-private partnership against cyber threats, opened its headquarters in Cyberjaya in March 2009.
Founded in 1865, the ITU is the oldest organisation in the UN system and functions as the UN’s specialised agency for information and communications technologies.
The organisation handles services like threat information and training and has 24 workshops in various countries. It also conducts vulnerability assessment for three UN agencies.
Victor said the partnership with UN would serve to enhance the Malaysian government's Economic Transformation Plan, creating new opportunities for skills development, employment and investments in the highly-specialised cybersecurity field.
Last year at ITU's 145th anniversary, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was one of the three eminent global personalities to be honoured as the 2010 Laureate of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Award for supporting ITU in strengthening global cybersecurity through the IMPACT Centre in Cyberjaya.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) - Malaysia has become the United Nations' (UN) cybersecurity hub via the official partnership of Cyberjaya-based International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT).
IMPACT is the cybersecurity executing arm of the UN specialised agency, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Cyberjaya, near Malaysia's federal administratvive capital Putrajaya, is the nucleus of the country's Multi-Media Super Corridor.
The ITU has appointed IMPACT to provide cybersecurity assistance and support to its 193 member states and to other organisations in the UN system.
"With the partnership and its specialised agency positions Cyberjaya
squarely as the world's cybersecurity hub, and with this comes exciting new opportunities for Malaysia's digital economy.
"We aim to deploy services to at least 160 countries, an average of 20 per cent increase in providing cybersecurity support over a one-year period from last month through the partnership," Philip Victor, Director for Policy and International Cooperation told Bernama on Thursday.
He said since the partnership was inked in Geneva in May, eight countries have come on board to join IMPACT, a coalition of 136 countries to date.
Victor said cybersecurity has been acknowledged as the fastest-growing segment in the ICT global industry.
With more countries expected to partner, the ITU-IMPACT coalition has become the largest global cybersecurity alliance of its kind.
IMPACT, the world's first global public-private partnership against cyber threats, opened its headquarters in Cyberjaya in March 2009.
Founded in 1865, the ITU is the oldest organisation in the UN system and functions as the UN’s specialised agency for information and communications technologies.
The organisation handles services like threat information and training and has 24 workshops in various countries. It also conducts vulnerability assessment for three UN agencies.
Victor said the partnership with UN would serve to enhance the Malaysian government's Economic Transformation Plan, creating new opportunities for skills development, employment and investments in the highly-specialised cybersecurity field.
Last year at ITU's 145th anniversary, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was one of the three eminent global personalities to be honoured as the 2010 Laureate of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Award for supporting ITU in strengthening global cybersecurity through the IMPACT Centre in Cyberjaya.
