Beyond land, sea, air, and space, life state has\nsailed into the fifth domain, cyberspace. Data is a new soil and water for\nlife, and data is also a new threat. Time and progression put us in a situation\nwhere the digital economy is not an option but a must. In today\u2019s\ninterconnected society, no one is safe from cyber vulnerabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint maps out a\ndirection and plan for a better future. Post pandemic norms witness a new\nbusiness model on a digital platform invented. The online marketplace and\ndigital commerce segment became the most favorable transaction preference and\nprojected total transaction to reach US$10,919 millions in 2021 with an annual\ngrowth rate of 15.97%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cyberspace is a hidden battlefield where nations\nwage secret wars. Trust, justice, freedom, equality, right, privacy, and even\nreligion is at stake. Focus on the MyDIGITAL initiative should not only\nset to transform Malaysia into a high-income nation and a regional leader in\nthe digital economy alone but include digital literacy and country preparedness\nwith a reliable mechanism for digital threat, data protection and\ncybersecurity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cybercrime, hacking, data breach, and manipulation\ndefinitely are unavoidable trade-off for digital transformation. Data breach is an act of releasing a secure\nor confidential information to an untrusted party or environment.\nCyber-espionage is the use of computers to access confidential information and\nalso known as cyber spying. People, governments, and corporations are\nvulnerable to those threats and data breaches. It has become our problem today\nand is going to become the biggest problem in our society in the future. We all\nknow those terms but how prepared are we in overcoming them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We might wonder how the system will suggest a piece\nof information from our search history whenever we revisit the same platform or\nsometimes another platform as well. That is the simplest example of how our\ndata and activities are being manipulated by the algorithm and programming in\ncyberspace prompting your preferences or even generating your complete profile\nbased on what you have searched, watched or visited on the internet. The data\nis important for marketing purpose and is valuable to the third parties in\ndigital marketing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are dangers in being so connected. High-profile\nhackers internationally have shown they can have the potential to cause\nphysical damage and loss of life as well. The nature of the threat is evolving\nall the time and could cause race tension, religious distress, international\nconflict, and political unrest. No one agency or even the government as a\nwhole can manage cybersecurity by itself. The more technology we use the more\nvulnerable we become because the technology itself is the medium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should not assume that we are immune. The\nattacker is always eying on how to creep into government servers, banks,\norganization databases, or even personal information such as passwords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nare roughly more than 4.66 billion internet users who send and receive a huge\namount of data every day. Their data packets are ultimately directed around the\nworld by 80,000 autonomous routers. The routers run the internet\u2019s traffic control\nsystem through the border gateway protocol (BGP) which is initially designed\nbased on trust where every player is expected to perform their best norm as\nthey can. But the BGP router can be tricked and could be used to redirect data\npackets off course, that can be monitored and intercepted by cyberspies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Technically, there is no solution to prevent\nhijacking the data superhighway. Apart from improving awareness via\ndigital literacy for people, the digital defence for the security pillar should\nbe established. The relevant consultative body should deal with potential\nchallenges and threats as well as how to respond in the digital risk and\ncrisis. A cyber threat analysis must be made known to within industries,\nclusters, or potential targeted groups. An application or software should be\nscreened for potential violation of right and privacy before it is allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We really need to have a capable device and mechanism\nto access it. Technology incapability is the critical weakness in cyberwar and\nvulnerabilities. Cyberspies can even hack the infrastructure that supports the\ninternet. We should also revisit\nour law and enforcement to strengthen our legal provision to protect the data\nand information breach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, a US District judge has approved a\nprivacy lawsuit under Illinois\u2019 Biometric Information Privacy Act paying $650\nmillion to Facebook users who alleged the company created and stored scans of\ntheir faces without permission. Facebook, is the biggest social media used by\nMalaysian (89.54%) as compared to others (YouTube-3.03%, Pinterest-2.98%,\nTwitter-2.73%, Instagram-1.24% & reddit-0.24%) could also be targeted for\nthe same purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital economy is not only opportunity, but also\npotential vulnerabilities. The risk associated with it could be mitigated by a smart\ndigital nation and extra awareness and caution. Planning, preparation, expertise\nand infrastructure should be developed from time to time along the\ntechnological advancement to align with the unpredicted future\nthreats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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