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3rd June 2008, Kuala Lumpur – In a
continuing effort to strengthen national
security, the Government of Malaysia
through the Ministry of Home Affairs had
signed an agreement with Nexbis Sdn. Bhd.,
for the supply of a forensic level
National Security Solution to the
Immigration Department of Malaysia for
foreigners entering or working in
Malaysia.
Y.B. Dato’ Chor Chee Heung, Deputy Home
Affairs Minister represented the Home
Affairs Minister, had officiated and
witnessed the agreement signing ceremony
at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton Hotel. The
agreement was inked in conjunction with
the Bali Process Conference hosted by the
Immigration Department of Malaysia and
attended by senior government officials
from over 50 participating countries and
numerous international agencies. The Bali
Process is an inter-government initiative
to foster collaboration in combating
people smuggling, trafficking in persons
and related transnational crimes in the
Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
The agreement was signed by Tan Sri Abdul
Aziz bin Mohd. Yusof, Secretary General of
the Ministry of Home Affairs and Dato’
Ahmad Faizal bin Datuk Wira Haji Jaafar,
Deputy CEO of Nexbis Sdn. Bhd and
witnessed by Dato’ Wahid bin Md. Don,
Director General of Immigration and Dato’
Sri Johann Young, Chairman and CEO of
Nexbis Sdn. Bhd. Foreign delegates from
the participating countries of the Bali
Process, senior officials from the
Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration
Department of Malaysia, Nexbis Sdn. Bhd.
and the Media were present at the event.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Dato’
Wahid Md. Don said that NexCodeTM will
enhance and increase the Immigration
Department’s nationwide enforcement
capabilities with access to secure
information in real-time. NexCodeTM will
also be able to extend the same
capabilities to other larger enforcement
agencies such as the PDRM, RELA, AADK and
Jabatan Penjara within the Ministry of
Home Affairs to deal with foreigner
related issues and curb crime. These
advantages will promote higher efficiency,
help to address issues of people
smuggling, trafficking and fraud.
“This agreement paves the way for the
Government of Malaysia to develop
significant and coordinated
inter-department and inter-government
collaboration via NexCodeTM’s capability
to cross-link between agencies and even
governments to assist in internal and
transnational crime,” Dato’ Wahid added.
Dato’ Wahid explained that current
security solutions available in the market
utilise first and second level security
(L1S and L2S) technologies only. However,
such levels of security have been proven
insufficient to provide comprehensive
security coverage, as these either have
limitations in use or have been
compromised. RFID technology used in many
security solutions, for example, has been
proven to have serious security flaws
whereby identity information can be stolen
and cloned. This has resulted in the
Government of Netherlands, where the
security flaw was exposed, to issue a
public warning on the matter.
The use of NexCodeTM provides Level 3
Security (L3S) which is acknowledged to be
the highest level of security available
globally to meet with heightening demands
of stronger security and to address
increasing threats of local and
international crime. The solution will
give the Ministry of Home Affairs the
final Level 3 Security not in place today.
Under the agreement signed, Nexbis Sdn.
Bhd. is supplying to the Immigration
Department its National Security Solution
which involves the application of
NexCodeTM security features onto existing
immigration identity and travel
authentication to ensure information is
correctly linked to intended identities
and the detection of fraudulent activities
which usually relate to other forms of
crime.
In addition to this, all Immigration
enforcement officers will be equipped with
secure mobile phone-based field
enforcement applications to carry out
identity verification operations around
the country. This completes the
capabilities of the Immigration Department
to perform forensic level enforcement on a
nationwide basis with secure access to
information and statuses from its live
databases.
Meanwhile, in his statement, Dato’ Sri
Johann Young stated that the collaboration
with the Immigration Department, Ministry
of Home Affairs signals the start of
enhancing the nation’s security further,
addressing issues faced by the country
today in terms of immigration related
crimes and the exploration of potential
Intra-Government and Inter-Government
security initiatives within Malaysia and
with its neighbouring countries such as
Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and
Brunei in combating illegal immigration,
crime and even terrorism issues.
“We believe NexCodeTM is the solution to
address a spectrum of issues faced today
by many governments worldwide in terms of
national security, identity protection and
effective enforcement. NexCodeTM has
patents filed in 140 countries and will
pave the way for more efficient
information sharing between ASEAN
governments as well as other potential
governments who may adopt our solution,
whilst retaining their sovereign data
integrity and security,” he added.
“Based on global security technology
standards similar to that mandated by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security in
compliance with the U.S. REAL ID Act of
2005, the NexCodeTM Level 3 Security
solution not only includes identity
protection but also crime and riot
prevention, fraud control, terrorism
deterrence, revenue assurance, intra and
inter-government modules. In addition,
NexCodeTM features unlimited data storage,
availability of real-time statuses and
truly mobile field enforcement
capabilities,” Dato’ Sri Johann
concluded..
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www.nexbis.com
for more information on
Nexbis Sdn. Bhd.
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