CYBERJAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today launched Telekom Malaysia’s (TM) Cyber Security and Cloud Services for the government.
The event was held at the Klang Valley Core Data Centre at the TM Complex, here.
TM group chief executive officer Imri Mokhtar said TM was ready to fulfil its role to strengthen the public sector Cloud infrastructure, following the government’s announcement to migrate 80 per cent of public data to hybrid cloud systems by the end of 2022 with its Cloud-First strategy.
“This was in line with the government’s aspiration in driving Digital Malaysia through improved connectivity and infrastructure like Cloud and technical capabilities,” he told reporters after the launch.
Meanwhile, TM ONE Cyber Defence Centre (CYDEC) will provide global-level structured security services including Global Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Active Cyber Defence (ACD) and a 24/7 Global Cyber-security Operations Centre (G-CSOC) to protect public and government data.
Imri however refused to divulge details on the contract value.
Previously, all government data were hosted using on-premises infrastructure.
Locally-hosted Cloud infrastructure with in-country data centres significantly eliminates risks of migrating national data to the cloud and the need to protect critical cyber infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and mitigating potential fallouts from geopolitical instabilities.
This allows the government to secure data as well as critical national infrastructure.-NST