By partnering with a unified cybersecurity platform, the firm will be offering cost-effective advanced SOC services for local and regional clients
To establish its first in-country security operations center (SOC) on public cloud in Malaysia, an IT infrastructure services provider has a mission to enable enterprises across the country to keep their data secure while reducing the cost of security operations by up to 40%.
Having been offering managed cybersecurity services in the country since 1989, the LifeTech Group has been serving a broad spectrum of industries in the region, including threat intelligence, incident response, and managed detection and response to industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, e-commerce, retail, telecommunications, and education.
On 27 February 2025, the firm was announced to have partnered another cybersecurity firm to deliver its next-gen SOC in Malaysia to offer the following services:
- Migration and integration of customer platforms and threat intelligence for monitoring, automation, and analytics on a single platform to facilitate fast searches, queries, and investigations, while reducing cost of on-premises security infrastructure and tools/platforms
- Advanced SOC capabilities such as proactive risk mitigation planning, perception management, skills uplift, and continuous improvement
- A full lifecycle approach to addressing cyber threats through optimized services in risk assessment, compliance, and threat visibility, as well as identity, endpoint, and cloud security solutions
- Advanced detection, response capabilities, automation, and incident forensics
- Security Operations as a Platform: Unified visibility and control across IT environments through tools such as SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response)
The firm’s Chairman and CEO, Dato KK Loh, said: “By transforming our SOC using a next-generation unified platform, we are empowering our customers across multiple industries including National Critical Information Infrastructure, to strengthen their cyber resilience, respond swiftly to threats, and navigate an increasingly complex security landscape with confidence, while significantly reducing costs.”
According to Effendi Azmi Hashim, Managing Director, Kyndryl (Malaysia, Indonesia), the partner for the project: “The collaboration emphasizes the adoption of innovative global security standards and state-of-the-art security platforms on public cloud, empowering LifeTech to deliver and scale proactive, efficient and robust security operations.”
