CyberSecurity Malaysia has launched two affordable digital forensics products called the Kloner and Pendua.

Designed for local information and communications technology industry players, law enforcement agencies and tertiary education institutions, the products were developed under CyberSecurity's xForensik research and development (R&D) and commercialisation initiatives.

CyberSecurity chief executive officer Amirudin Abdul Wahab said both R&D products could help meet the rising demand for more affordable cyber security tools, especially with the current global economic slowdown.

"These technologies are becoming very costly assets for Malaysian IT industry players, law enforcement agencies and tertiary institutions to own," he said in a statement.

The Kloner, a lightweight portable external storage duplicator equipped with forensic data preservation functions, was developed for first responders at a crime scene.

The Pendua, a portable digital document that comes in a USB thumb-drive, contains forensics duplicator software to copy data from a suspect's computer at a crime scene.

CyberSecurity is an agency under the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry.

- Bernama