KUALA LUMPUR: US-based Swimlane today has announced plans to open a regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as part of a strategic partnership with CyberSecurity Malaysia to create a more robust cyber environment in the region.

In a statement today, the company said the decision to establish Kuala Lumpur as Swimlane's regional headquarter was based on Malaysia having a thriving and diversified economy with world-class infrastructure, experienced and well-skilled partners, and a competitive talent pool that is multilingual.

Malaysia also provides tremendous business opportunities, especially for global companies seeking to bring their solution across the Asia Pacific region, it said.

CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer Datuk Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab said this strategic partnership with Swimlane is timely for CyberSecurity Malaysia.

It will help establish and extend the strategic cybersecurity vision in the region.

"Together, Swimlane and Cybersecurity Malaysia will bring their respective knowledge, expertise, capabilities, and products to offer innovative cybersecurity solutions in Malaysia and the region.

"As the national cybersecurity specialist and technical centre, CyberSecurity Malaysia welcomes such collaboration as it provides Malaysia with advanced technology, capability, and capacity to ensure our cyber environment is reliable, safe, and trustworthy," he said.

Swimlane co-founder and chief strategy officer Cody Cornell said the company's expansion into the Asia Pacific (APAC) is anchored on using its technology to enable anyone at any organisation to contribute their knowledge and expertise to the protection of their knowledge and expertise to the organisation.

"This is all while reducing the effort and total cost of ownership in achieving what previously impossible security goals were," he said.

Swimlane is a cloud-scale, low-code security automation platform.

Swimlane said the APAC region faces a significant cybersecurity talent shortage with an estimated 2.04 million open cybersecurity roles, accounting for 66 per cent of the total global shortage, thus signalling the struggle to find qualified, skilled professionals to handle increasing security alerts.

It said that globally, cybersecurity attacks are growing exponentially, making it a lot more difficult for organisations, especially in APAC, where there is a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent.

As part of the strategic alliance, Swimlane and CyberSecurity Malaysia have identified three key initiatives, which are to drive awareness on how security operations automation can bring value to organisations, in-country talent skills development and bring its technology to enable existing as well as new technology partners like GlobeOSS Sdn Bhd in developing security automation & analytics solutions and services for the regional market.

GlobeOSS is investing in security services around Swimlane technology.