APU CyberSecurity
Talent Zone

APU’s Cybersecurity Talent Zone is a clear and perfect example of how APU collaborates closely with industry leading organisations to expose students to best-in-class technologies and systems. This Zone features a fully-functional Security Operations Centre (SOC) that allows students to have hands-on cybersecurity operations experience. APU’s Cyber Security students are able to actively analyse occurrences of cyber-attacks and plan counteractive measures towards cyber threats through real-time data.

In addition, a full-fledged Cyber Threats Simulation and Response Centre (also known as a Cyber Range) is also located within the Cyber Security Talent Zone. The Cyber Range incorporates latest technologies and a military grade cyber-defense system that can simulate highly complex cyber-attacks in a hyper realistic environment, enabling students to understand and formulate defence strategies, and practice the entire chain of cyber defence, while preparing them to deal with real cyber threat attack when it happens. The Cyber Range is among the best-equipped facility of its kind across the Asia Pacific region. APU’s CISCO Networking Academy, its Centre for Research and Development in IoT (CREDIT) and its Forensic and Security Research centre also make up the APU CyberSecurity Talent Zone, which is truly a unique, end-to-end integrated facility to provide hands-on experience to our students - the global cybersecurity, networking and IoT talents of the future.

CISCO Networking Academy

IoT Lab

The APU CyberSecurity Talent Zone was established under the heavy support from our industry partners, the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as well as the Minister of Communication & Multimedia, YB Tuan Gobind Singh. It has been heavily featured as a major breakthrough in various national news portals:

• Digital News Asia 
• The Star Online
• New Straits Times
• Oriental Daily