The Digital Ministry will introduce the first intelligence system of its kind in the country to monitor the sale of personal data on the dark web. So, what should you know about it?
Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo said the system, which will be introduced in the second quarter of this year, is named the Intelligence Support Automation Capability Project for Personal Data Breach Case Management.
The project was developed following growing concerns over the sale and transaction of personal data through online shopping platforms including the darkwebs. This is part of the efforts of the Ministry of Digital, through the Personal Data Protection Commissioner (PDP), to address the increasingly worrying global digital security crisis.
Gobind said at the same time, the Digital Ministry, through the PDP Commissioner, is also actively increasing enforcement activities, intensifying advocacy programs and upgrading software, applications and security, which are used in regulating personal data security laws.
These include raids on companies and organisations that process personal data with commercial transactions based on complaints of data breaches and cyber incidents that have occurred, as well as opening PDP Commissioner offices in several locations across the country, starting in the Sabah and Sarawak Zones.
Apart from that, the PDP Commissioner will also implement the Information Security and Privacy Management System (ISPMS) Certification Project based on the ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification standard and ISO/IEC 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS).
He explained that the measure was to ensure that the security of software, applications, information systems and privacy of Act 709 regulatory entities was always at an optimal level in accordance with international standards.
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