BAE Shifts Cyber Software Development to Malaysia

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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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