APWG's Counter-Ecrime Operations Summit To Be Held In Malaysia Next Month
18 March 2011 (bernama.com)

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -Business and thought-leaders in cyber crime globally will meet in Malaysia next month to map the next stage in the global confrontation against the crime at the fifth annual Anti-Phishing Working Group's (APWG) Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS V).

The conference, from April 27-29, will focus on the challenges faced by ecrime responders and the development of critical common resources for the forensic professionals as well as business managers who protect consumers and enterprises from electronic crime threats every day.

"CeCOS conferences have one imperative to unite the ecrime responder community so that it can better act in concert against the threats that menace enterprises and consumers worldwide,"CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer, Lt Kol Husin Jazri said in a statement Friday.

"We are very excited to collaborate with APWG and have the conference in Malaysia for the first time,"he added.

CeCOS V, the second APWG conference held in Asia, is an open conference for members of the cybercrime fighting community.

Hosted by the APWG and its conference partner, CyberSecurity Malaysia, the event is sponsored by HitachiJoho, Google and MarkMonitor.

-BERNAMA