For Selangor Dredging Berhad (SDB), the pursuit of business excellence stems from its promise of ‘Building Lifelong Relationships’ with customers, shareholders, employees and all stakeholders.
The company is today an internationally acclaimed property developer known for pioneering new concepts, and consistently blazing a trail for others to follow year after year.
Testament to SDB’s strong standing are the numerous awards the company has received at all levels: local, regional and international, including SDB’s Village at Pasir Panjang in Singapore which emerged as the World Gold Winner of the FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards 2019 in the Residential (Low-Rise) category held in Moscow, Russia in May 2019.
Within today’s Digital Economy, SDB is also transforming its operations to be more productive and operationally efficient through the wonders of technology.
As a result, cybersecurity is high on the company’s agenda and an area which the company places great emphasis on, said its IT and Business Continuity Manager Megat Azmir Amir Megat Iberahim (pic above).
“The threat landscape of today has evolved significantly from what it was in the early days. And with more and more of our operations being digitised, with our workforce also constantly working ‘on-the-go’ and in ‘real time’, we need to consistently ensure that our data is always safeguarded and does not fall into the wrong hands,” said Megat.
In recent years, SDB has looked to Sophos for all its cybersecurity needs.
Based in Oxford, the United Kingdom, Sophos is renowned worldwide as a leader in next-generation cybersecurity
“Sophos today protects nearly 400,000 organisations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats,” said Sophos Country Manager Wong Joon Hoong (pic).
Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
“The award-winning Sophos Central cloud-based platform integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of best-of-breed products, from the Intercept X endpoint solution to the XG Firewall, into a single system called Synchronised Security,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Fortesys Distribution Sdn Bhd Managing Director Loh Leh Hui said that Sophos is well known for protecting companies from various emerging cyber threats.
Fortesys is the official distributor of Sophos in Malaysia.
“How ransomware works is basically through blackmail. Cyber criminals design and flood the world with programmes meant to lock users out of one of their key resources, data, then proceed to extort them for money in exchange for freeing those resources,” Loh said.
Sophos’ anti-ransomware features include advanced protection that monitors and secures the whole attack chain.
“Today’s ransomware attacks often combine multiple advanced techniques with real-time hacking. To minimise your risk of falling victim you need Sophos Intercept X for advanced protection technologies that disrupt the whole attack chain including deep learning that predictively prevents attacks, and CryptoGuard which rolls back the unauthorised encryption of files in seconds,” said Wong.
In addition, Sophos Intercept X Advanced with EDR (endpoint detection and response) integrates powerful endpoint detection and response (EDR) with the industry’s top-rated endpoint protection.
Built for both IT security operations and threat hunting, Intercept X detects and investigates suspicious activity with AI-driven analysis. Unlike other EDR tools, it adds expertise, not headcount by replicating the skills of hard-to-find analysts.
Source: Fortesys Distribution Sdn Bhd
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