Cyber Security Act 2024 (Act 854) NACSA Readiness Training
A one-day readiness programme for organisations that fall within, or supply into, Malaysia's National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII) sectors under the Cyber Security Act 2024 (Act 854). The Act places statutory duties on designated NCII entities: appointing an internal point of contact, adopting the applicable code of practice, running risk assessments and independent audits on the prescribed cycle, and notifying cyber security incidents to the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) and the relevant sector lead. It also introduces a licensing regime for providers of specified cyber security services.
The programme translates those duties into an internal work plan rather than a reading of the statute: who owns what, what evidence has to exist before an audit asks for it, and what has to happen in the first hours of an incident. Content can be tailored to the participants' sector and to whether the organisation is a designated entity, a supplier to one, or still working out which.
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Programme Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome and Programme Overview
Introduction to the session, objectives, and housekeeping.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Cyber Security Act 2024 in Context
Why the Act was introduced and how it sits alongside the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 and its 2024 amendments, the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, and sector regulator requirements such as BNM RMiT and Securities Commission guidelines. The role of NACSA and the National Cyber Security Committee, and what changed for organisations when the Act came into force.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
NCII Sectors, Designation and Scope
The NCII sectors named in the Act, how sector leads designate NCII entities, and how to work out whether your organisation is designated, is a supplier into a designated entity, or is out of scope. Practical scoping of which systems, data and third-party connections sit inside the NCII perimeter, and why that boundary needs to be documented before anyone else draws it for you.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Statutory Duties of an NCII Entity
The duty to implement the applicable code of practice, to conduct cyber security risk assessments on the prescribed cycle, to commission independent audits, and to submit the resulting reports. What adequate looks like in evidence terms: asset registers, risk registers, policy sets, remediation tracking, audit trails and management sign-off.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Incident Notification and the First Hours
The statutory obligation to notify NACSA and the sector lead, the notification chain, and the prescribed reporting windows. What information must be captured at the point of detection, how to keep an initial submission accurate while the facts are still moving, and how the notification duty interacts with PDPA breach notification where personal data is involved. Escalation triggers, internal decision rights, and holding statements.
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Governance, Roles and Accountability
Appointing and empowering the internal point of contact, board and senior management oversight, and how NCII duties are split between IT, risk, legal, procurement and the business. The offence and penalty provisions that attach to the entity and to individuals, and what a defensible compliance record looks like.
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Licensing of Cyber Security Service Providers
Which services fall inside the licensing regime, what it means when you buy managed detection, security operations or penetration testing services, and the due diligence questions to put to vendors. Contract clauses worth having, and the risk of relying on an unlicensed provider for a regulated service.
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Readiness Gap Workshop
Participants map their own organisation against the duties covered during the day and produce a prioritised gap list with named owners and target dates.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Key takeaways, next steps, and close.
Key Outcomes
- Determine whether the organisation is a designated NCII entity, a supplier into one, or out of scope
- Explain the statutory duties that attach to an NCII entity and identify who inside the organisation owns each one
- Run the incident notification process to NACSA and the sector lead without losing time to internal ambiguity
- Identify the evidence a risk assessment or independent audit will ask for, and where it is currently missing
- Assess whether cyber security services being purchased require a licensed provider
- Leave with a prioritised readiness gap list for their own organisation
Training Mode Physical / Online / Hybrid / e-learning
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Level Intermediate, suitable for IT, risk, compliance, legal and operations leads, and for board members with oversight responsibility
Duration 1 Day (8 Hours) | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue In-house at the client's premises, or delivered via the client's preferred platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or equivalent)
Assessment 10 to 15 question knowledge assessment covering all modules
Certificate Certificate of Completion issued to all participants upon full attendance