Is corporate Malaysia serious about protecting our data?

FOR Malaysians, the cycle has become exhaustingly predictable. From massive ransomware attacks crippling statutory bodies to recent headlines of employees casually leaking sensitive customer billing details online, the public is caught in a continuous loop of data compromises.

While the nature of these threats varies wildly – ranging from highly sophisticated, artificial intelligence-driven external cyberattacks to rudimentary internal snooping – the corporate response is almost always identical. The public is inevitably met with a standard public relations script: The company assures us it was an “isolated incident”, claims no broader systems were compromised and reiterates that they take data privacy “very seriously”.