In today’s business environment, more and more business aspects like data, assets, client’s information & employees’ information are accessible online. Businesses continue to place a greater emphasis on websites and online offerings to their clients and neglect information security. This provides hackers with the exhilaration of hacking into an organization’s network; be it done for fame or fortune. Their aim, as everyone agrees, is to steal information for fraudulent use. Their methods and modus operandi are becoming extremely sophisticated and fuelled by the proliferation of new tools, technologies and techniques that are available and being employed almost everyday. As such, businesses cannot merely rely on the use of traditional aspects of security – firewalls intrusion detection systems and virus scans because they are no longer enough to protect an organization from threats and breaches.

ABOUT HACKER HALTED ASIA PACIFIC 2009

The Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2009 is a vendor neutral platform, and is the 15th in the global series that continues to spur the understanding of various countermeasures to overcome the security violations present today. Its primary objective is to provide the C-level management, Senior IT professionals as well as Technical Infosec professionals with the best practices in acquiring, implementing, managing and measuring information security postures of their organizations.

It will be a 4-day event from 10 November to 13 November, featuring a 2-Day Conference and four concurrent 2-Day Hands-on workshop. The Hacker Halted conference will cover in-depth topics on various security issues plaguing the industry, and the different ways of protection and countermeasures in dealing with threats. Hacker Halted Workshop will features some of the finest technical workshop featuring renowned EC-Council trainers from all over the world. Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2009 is proud to have the presence of world-famous international speakers from the information security industry namely Howard Schmidt, Dr Hugh Thompson, Tim Pierson and amongst others.

HISTORY OF HACKER HALTED IN MALAYSIA

Hacker Halted has been conducted successfully in Malaysia in 2004, 2007 and 2008. In the last Hacker Halted Malaysia 2008, the former Deputy Minister, Ministry of Higher Education, Yang Berhormat Datuk Ir. Haji Idris Bin Haji Haron officiated the event that attracted over 500 Information Technology Professionals from the Asia Pacific region and worldwide. Hacker Halted Malaysia 2008 also had the honour of the Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Yang Berhormat Tuan Hj. Fadillah Bin Yusof addressing the audience with a Keynote Address on “IT Security Policy & Procedures : Best Practices”. Several key speakers were Mr. Sanjay Bavisi, President of EC-Council; Mr. Richardus Eko Indrajit, Chairman, ID-SIRTII Indonesia; Mr. James Aquilina, Executive Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of Stroz Friedberg LLC; Professor Lech Janczewski, Associate Professor of University of Auckland; Mr. Paul Wright, Head of Cyber Crime of City of London Police; Mr. Sivanathan Subramaniam, Senior Digital Forensic Analyst of Cybersecurity Malaysia; Mr. Haja Mohideen, Co-Founder and Technical Director of EC-Council; Mr. Larry Detar, Vice-President of EC-Council Global Services and Major Scott Applegate, ex-Chief of US Army Red Team.

LAUNCHING OF HACKER HALTED ASIA PACIFIC 2009 | 9 JUNE 2009

The Launching of Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2009 was attended by Chief Minister of Malacca ; Yang Amat Berhormat Datuk Seir Haji Mohd. Ali Bin Mohd Rustam and Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation; Yang Berhormat Tuan Haji Fadillah Yusof. The event was held in Nikko Hotel in the presence of personnels, partners and sponsors of Kolej Yayasan Melaka and EC-Council Academy Sdn Bhd. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was also signed between Kolej Yayasan Melaka and EC-Council Academy Sdn Bhd .


Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2009 is an international platform to share expertise, experience and latest trends on the Security Ecosystem to elevate international awareness.