APU cyberthreat centre to promote data sharing
Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with United States-based cybersecurity training company Rocheston Pte Ltd to set up the first Cyberthreats Intelligence Centre in Malaysia based within a university campus.
“The setting up of the Cyberthreats Intelligence Centre represents a significant development of APU’s existing state-of-the-art integrated Cybersecurity Talent Zone (CTZ), which was launched last year.
“This CTZ presently comprises a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-standard Cyber Range and Security Operation Centre, APU’s Cisco Networking Academy, as well as centres for research and development for IoT and digital forensics”, said APIIT Education Group founder and chief executive officer Datuk Parmjit Singh during the signing ceremony.
“This centre will act as the central hub for a network of Cyberthreats Intelligence Centres that will be set up across Asia, and will promote openness in data sharing.
“Many cyberthreat intelligence centres tend to impose heavy restrictions for data sharing and analysis” said Rocheston founder and chief technology officer Haja Mohideen.
The Rocheston-APU Cyberthreats Intelligence Centre will be objective in its operations and information dissemination so that parties — students, academics and the industry — can benefit through enhanced preparedness in cybersecurity and cybersafety.
This collaboration held greater meaning as Haja himself is an alumnus of APIIT/APU, who has established himself as an international cybersecurity specialist.