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to enable a wider outreach measurement mechanism will
of programmes to kids, youth, also be appropriately devised to
adults/parents and organisations. evaluate the effectiveness of said
Initiatives by various agencies programmes and to identify ways
will also be implemented in an to improve them from time to time.
integrated and coordinated
manner to ensure a wider Cyber security will also become
coverage and bigger impact. This part of the syllabi at the primary,
will be crucial to educating citizens secondary and tertiary level of
on the necessary knowledge to education. Given the increasing
detect and avoid abuse, fraud threats from cyberspace and
and crime online, as well as to the all-embracing nature of
nurture accountable behaviour, ICT and the Internet, especially
thereby creating well-informed among the younger generation
and responsible cyber citizens. of Malaysians, we believe that it is
never too early to introduce and
At the same time, we will also be foster cyber security awareness.
working on establishing a creative Our youth needs to be equipped
content development programme with the necessary cyber security
mechanism that brings together knowledge and tools to ensure
all the stakeholders, from both safety and security.
the public and private sectors, to
share their experience and best In academia, there is a need
practices on creating awareness. to embed cyber security
It is hoped that a unified across taught courses under
national brand of cyber security ICT and Computer Engineering
awareness programme can programmes. As an example,
then be developed, one which cyber security requirements
streamlines the content of various need to be taught in Software
awareness programmes based on Programming (secure coding),
the accepted security baseline Software and System Development
framework. A corresponding Cycle (Secure SDLC), Database,