JOHOR BAHRU, 21 September 2016 – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry out collaboration research in order to develop the Cyber Threat Intelligence System and Malware Analytics.
Both memorandums were signed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail and Chief Executive Officer of CSM, Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab.
Prof. Ahmad Fauzi said a laboratory known as ‘UTM-CSM Cyber Security X Lab’ was established at the Faculty of Computing UTM Johor Bahru to put full-time researchers to focus on this research.
He was met after the signing of both memorandums at the Faculty of Computing Meeting Room. Also attending the ceremony was the Dean of the Faculty of Computing UTM, Prof. Dr. Abdul Samad Ismail.
According to Prof. Fauzi, the laboratory that was built at a cost of RM100, 000.00 was ‘coming at the right time’ given the increasing number of cyber-attacks and the emergence of sophisticated hacking techniques by cyber criminals.
“UTM-CSM Cyber Security X Lab will be providing numbers of infrastructure analytical platform for a large-scale search and data collection highway, data processing using machine learning and deep learning in addition to the ability to generate data visualization to facilitate research and cyber analytics,” he said.
This is particularly valuable to researchers as cyber security research analytics require infrastructure platforms that enable the processing of the large-scale research data highway and in real time.
Among the scope of collaboration agreed were the latest trend analysis study of activities of hackers like Anonymous, Lulzsec, Syrian Electronic Army, a sophisticated hacking techniques such as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), the analysis of the code and understanding the mechanisms of malware used to attack the application, operating system or organization.
Through this cooperation, CSM will provide the analytical infrastructure platform and researchers from the two sides can conduct a strategic research collaboration in the field of specialization of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Malware Analytics.
UTM-CSM Research on Cyber Security will impact directly on stakeholders which was the reason to push the authorities concerned to develop national cyber defense systems from cyber-attacks that become more dynamic and sophisticated over time.
