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64 Malaysia Cyber Security Strategy 2020-2024

The Malaysia Digital Economy
Corporation, the lead agency
for driving the digital economy in
Malaysia, will spearhead efforts to
increase the number of local skilled
professionals, which will include
talent development initiatives
through new talent, up-skilling and
re-skilling. The government will also
provide additional funding and
scholarships in order to encourage
knowledge acquisition and
enrichment among existing cyber
security professionals. This will help
develop a new generation of a
cyber security professionals, with Ehance capacity at national
the necessary education and skills. sectoral organisation

Currently, CyberSecurity Malaysia
has started its efforts to increase
the number of local cyber
security professionals through
the implementation of Global New talent up-skilling and
Accredited Cybersecurity re-skilling
Education (ACE) Scheme. It is a
holistic professional certification
scheme established indigenously to
certify and recognise cyber security
personnel in tandem with ISO/IEC
17024 on people certifications, ISO/
IEC 9000 on processes and ISO/IEC
27001 on security management.