Cybersecurity and cybercrime often come down to a good mathematician fighting an evil one, and the latter, unfortunately, is usually the one who comes out on top. Blazing her career path on the side of good is Tun Mardeka Victoria Zaman Riera.
A student from the recent July intake on the Bachelor in Computer Forensic (Hons) programme at MSU’s Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE) Department of Information Science and Computing (ISC), Tun Mardeka Victoria often turns ears with her very special name. Whilst a famous ancestor whose genealogy is archived at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) had secured her the Tun title, it had been her Venezuelan mother to whom the rest of the name is owed.
Born the eighteenth generation in direct lineage to the Perak Sultanate’s first chieftain and aristocrat warrior Megat Terawis, Tun Mardeka was bestowed with her mother’s name Victoria on a 2001 visit to the Malaysia Independence Day exhibition of August 2000 at the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur. The word Merdeka, proclaimed on a video clip seven times in 1957 by the country’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, so intrigued a pregnant Mrs Victoria for its equivalence to the Spanish word for liberty.
Libertad, however, did not rhyme with Victoria – Spanish for victory. Merdeka soon replaced Libertad, and Mardeka met the sixth-time mother-to-be’s preference for three of her four daughters’ names to begin with the letters ‘M’ and ‘a’.
Twenty-year-old Tun Mardeka Victoria Zaman Riera aspires to meet rising demand for an educated cybersecurity workforce in an ever-changing cyber environment.
She understands that critical thinking is crucial to successful outcomes in digital-threat situations or where a server structure is involved, and the need to continue challenging conventional wisdom because what worked yesterday may not work today.
In countering ransomware attacks, for example, which have evolved from locking systems to stealing and encrypting backup files and data, no longer sufficient would be the regular backups of critical files and data.
Cloud infrastructure and applications, too, will continue to evolve.
Remote working arrangement, remote connecting of personal devices to the company network, and increasing use of IoT will all challenge cybersecurity management.
To keep developing new solutions, a focus on the theories and concepts as well as learning to use a particular tool or approach is essential.
Crucial to prevention is pre-understanding of the risks involved and the financial impact, as well as countering the it-won’t-happen-to-me mentality.
The changing of mindsets requires education as well as training, which led to her choosing Management and Science University (MSU).
“MSU’s competitive affordability among private universities in Malaysia, coupled with a conducive academic environment, convenient location – close to residences and not too far from the city centre – and diversity in its international/local student body, made it the best-choice university for me. The lectures, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and hands-on practical work give me good insights into what to expect from my future career options, whilst individual as well as group projects enhance my experience in managing timelines, milestones, deliverables, and coordination.
“All these help me develop my cybersecurity talent in addressing tactical as well as long-term strategic needs in cybersecurity. I’d like to be a strong member of the workforce, a leader capable of strategy and proactivity in cybersecurity. I know I can achieve it here, at Management and Science University.”
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Cybersecurity and cybercrime often come down to a good mathematician fighting an evil one, and the latter, unfortunately, is usually the one who comes out on top. Blazing her career path on the side of good is Tun Mardeka Victoria Zaman Riera.
A student from the recent July intake on the Bachelor in Computer Forensic (Hons) programme at MSU’s Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE) Department of Information Science and Computing (ISC), Tun Mardeka Victoria often turns ears with her very special name. Whilst a famous ancestor whose genealogy is archived at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) had secured her the Tun title, it had been her Venezuelan mother to whom the rest of the name is owed.
Born the eighteenth generation in direct lineage to the Perak Sultanate’s first chieftain and aristocrat warrior Megat Terawis, Tun Mardeka was bestowed with her mother’s name Victoria on a 2001 visit to the Malaysia Independence Day exhibition of August 2000 at the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur. The word Merdeka, proclaimed on a video clip seven times in 1957 by the country’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, so intrigued a pregnant Mrs Victoria for its equivalence to the Spanish word for liberty.
Libertad, however, did not rhyme with Victoria – Spanish for victory. Merdeka soon replaced Libertad, and Mardeka met the sixth-time mother-to-be’s preference for three of her four daughters’ names to begin with the letters ‘M’ and ‘a’.
Twenty-year-old Tun Mardeka Victoria Zaman Riera aspires to meet rising demand for an educated cybersecurity workforce in an ever-changing cyber environment.
She understands that critical thinking is crucial to successful outcomes in digital-threat situations or where a server structure is involved, and the need to continue challenging conventional wisdom because what worked yesterday may not work today.
In countering ransomware attacks, for example, which have evolved from locking systems to stealing and encrypting backup files and data, no longer sufficient would be the regular backups of critical files and data.
Cloud infrastructure and applications, too, will continue to evolve.
Remote working arrangement, remote connecting of personal devices to the company network, and increasing use of IoT will all challenge cybersecurity management.
To keep developing new solutions, a focus on the theories and concepts as well as learning to use a particular tool or approach is essential.
Crucial to prevention is pre-understanding of the risks involved and the financial impact, as well as countering the it-won’t-happen-to-me mentality.
The changing of mindsets requires education as well as training, which led to her choosing Management and Science University (MSU).
“MSU’s competitive affordability among private universities in Malaysia, coupled with a conducive academic environment, convenient location – close to residences and not too far from the city centre – and diversity in its international/local student body, made it the best-choice university for me. The lectures, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and hands-on practical work give me good insights into what to expect from my future career options, whilst individual as well as group projects enhance my experience in managing timelines, milestones, deliverables, and coordination.
“All these help me develop my cybersecurity talent in addressing tactical as well as long-term strategic needs in cybersecurity. I’d like to be a strong member of the workforce, a leader capable of strategy and proactivity in cybersecurity. I know I can achieve it here, at Management and Science University.”
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