00:00The most important thing is the policy, and not only at the national level, but at every level.
00:07That is the view of Sapura Holdings' Sindiran Berha Group CEO, Sharul Shamsuddin,
00:12who says Malaysia's biggest cybersecurity challenge is not technology itself,
00:15but the lack of a fully coordinated strategy.
00:18To have a safe cyber environment, you need to have the mother organization and its supply chain.
00:29Also, being cyber-safe and cyber-secured, because we are all connected.
00:34We're all connected one way or another.
00:37For Sharul, that means cybersecurity cannot stop at protecting one agency, one company, or one network.
00:42It has to cover the wider chain of vendors, contractors, and partners connected to it.
00:47If we do not have a coherent strategy going forward, we will not be able, over time,
00:57to get to the stage where we are cyber-safe.
01:01It is not enough just to scale one portion of it.
01:04He says cyber-resilience is built over time, through systems, behavior, and policy working together,
01:09rather than through one-off fixes or isolated upgrades.
01:13The issue comes as Putrajaya continues strengthening its cyber framework under the Cyber Security Act 2024,
01:18while debate grows over whether current laws and policies go far enough to address more complex and evolving threats.
01:25Sharul says local capacity building should not end with a single national champion,
01:29but should instead help grow a wider domestic ecosystem of specialist firms, partners, and suppliers.
01:36Because Putrajaya is not the only one that is going to be part of this ecosystem.
01:39There's going to be many other vendors that are also other small, local, if we were the mothership.
01:46There will be other vendors that also work under us under our strategy and using the similar technology,
01:52which actually generates economic spin-offs.
01:55Donish Roger Rizzo, FMT.
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