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16 Malaysia Cyber Security Strategy 2020-2024
Malaysia is also a target of government, while respecting the
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) right to freedom of speech.
attacks, with the most recent
incident manifested by way of As Malaysia continues to embrace
email spear phishing. These threats digital technologies, there is an
can escalate further given that increasing need to streamline
many Malaysian organisations the management of cybercrimes
continue to operate a number of and incidents to assure the public
legacy and unsupported systems, that all cybercrimes and incidents
which can no longer be updated will be handled appropriately
with the latest security patches. and effectively by the respective
These legacy systems may have law enforcement agencies.
multiple vulnerabilities, which are There is a need to eliminate
susceptible to attack payloads duplicative efforts and maximise
and tools available to cyber resource utilisation among the law
criminals. enforcement agencies.
There are also concerns about One of the main reasons for the
the increasing number of content- establishment of NACSA was to
related issues in Malaysian coordinate and complement all
cyberspace. While these incidents efforts on cyber security to make
are relatively still small in number, sure that all aspects are given
the impact on the nation is not. due attention. While focusing on
Given the speedy and widespread cyber security policy, governance
nature of the Internet as a medium and coordination matters, NACSA
of delivery, the effects of content- will also be administering other
related issues are potentially areas of concern, which will be
more detrimental and damaging. mandated to specialised agencies.
For this reason, Internet-based
contents, in the form of fake news, Efforts concerning other
misinformation, contents that are target areas, namely the CNII,
seditious and slanderous in nature, cybercrime, awareness, capacity
or with racial or religious overtones, building and international
are taken very seriously by the cooperation will be delegated to
