According to Husin, the accreditation programme is timely as there is currently a shortage of ICT security personnel which is a common phenomenon in more advanced countries as well. Based on Niser statistics, from August 1997 to March this year, Malaysia has experienced an accumulated of 1,713 ICT security cases with an average of 400 cases per year. Security threats in the Government were the highest in 2000 with a total of 27 cases of abuse, followed by the private sector with 19 cases. The state of ICT security in both the public and private sectors in Malaysia is about the same but the figures collected shows that Malaysia s state of ICT security is pressing, Husin said. He believes the high rate of ICT security breaches is due to people, business processes and technology vulnerabilities.
People bring about bad habits and manage things on the expense of security.
Business processes are sometimes not thorough enough, he said. Technology vulnerability gives intruders the advantage as it enables them to find one to get the public s attention.