http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140415/DEFREG03/304150023/BAE-Shifts-Cyber-Software-Development-Malaysia
By Andrew Chuter
Defense News
April 15, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR -- BAE Systems Applied Intelligence business is moving the
center of its cyber software development activities to Malaysia as part of
a strategy that will see the Southeast Asian location emerge as a key
component of it growing security business, according to Richard Watson,
the division’s Asia Pacific region managing director.
The Malaysian operation has already grown from 10 people to 100 within two
years and the plan is to recruit enough engineers to boost that figure to
350 people during 2015, said the Applied Intelligence executive.
The expansion of the British company’s cyber business here comes at a time
of increasing concern locally about the impact defense and commercial
hacking can have on national security.
In a speech at a conference on the sidelines of the Defence Services Asia
exhibition here this week, Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein
identified cyber terrorism as one of the most vital non-traditional
security issue to emerge in recent times.
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