Saifuddin: Beef up laws to counter tech-driven crime

KUALA LUMPUR: Laws must be strengthened to cope with emer­ging threats as technology changes the way criminals operate, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (pic).

The Home Minister said the increasingly complex challenges required the government and enforcement agencies to adopt a comprehensive approach invol­ving multiple stakeholders.

“For the Home Ministry, these challenges require us to strengthen our laws, enforcement capabi­lities and strategic cooperation to ensure that the safety of the people continues to be safeguarded, whether in the physical or digital world,” he said in a Facebook post yesterday.

Saifuddin Nasution said the government and enfor­ce­ment agencies could not face increasingly complex threats alone, but must instead harness the strengths of various sectors through a whole-of-government and whole-of-nation approach.

“Increasingly complex threats require a whole-of-govern­ment and whole-of-nation approach, bringing together the strengths of the government, enforcement agencies, academia, industry, technology providers and international partners,” he said, Bernama reported.

Saifuddin Nasution said the academic community and resear­chers play an important role in ensuring that security-related research findings were translated into action that benefited the public.

“Research should not end as publications or discussions at conferences.

“Knowledge and research findings must be translated into ­policies, streng­then enforcement capabilities and produce solutions to the real security chal­lenges faced by the people,” he said.

Meanwhile, Saifuddin Nasution congratulated the organisers and participants of the Sixth Inter­national Cyber Resilience Confe­rence (CRC2026), which he said played an important role in ­brid­ging research, policymaking, enforcement and national secu­rity needs.

“CRC2026 must therefore serve as a bridge between research and policy, knowledge and enforcement, as well as expertise and the needs of the nation,” he said.

Saifuddin Nasution also challenged academics and resear­chers to ensure that their findings did not stop at conference discussions, but were translated into policies, action and protective measures that had a tangible impact on the people.

The three-day CRC2026, which began on Tuesday in Bangi, brings together expertise and perspectives on cyber resilience amid evolving digital security threats.