Malaysia still lacks around 12,000 cyber security experts of various fields to tackle cyber attacks, which is one of the challenges faced by the government in its national digitalisation agenda.
“This is a huge gap when we understand the need for cyber security and companies, especially those in the digital economy, they really priotise cyber security and there will be an urgency to set up their own cyber security units. He said there is an understanding that his ministry, through CyberSecurity Malaysia, has several initiatives to implement to shore up the industry against cyber attacks.
“Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim did state in the Budget that there are some incentives to bring Malaysians back through TalentCorp and also foreigners who can serve in Malaysia, along with other incentives,” he added.