Malaysia’s Hack In The Box (M) Sdn Bhd (HITB), the owner of HITBSecConf, the largest network security conference in Asia and the Middle East endorsed by MCMC, MAMPU, MDeC and MNCC, today launched a new subsidiary, HITB Jobs (M) Sdn Bhd, which will solely specialize in international ICT security specialist recruitment and placement services. The recruitment will begin at the 7th annual instalment of HITBSecConf Conference in Kuala Lumpur on October 7th and 8th, 2009.

HITB Jobs, a joint venture between HITB and NDMTeam, an information security company in Bulgaria, will search for, evaluate and recruit highly skilled information security professionals for companies that wish to bring their information security ‘in house’ and for those looking for professionals with specific security skills.

“By beefing up their organizations with skilled information security practitioners organizations can tremendously improve the level of information security and lower the cost of supporting their IT infrastructure, nowadays primarily done through vendors and external consultants,” said HITB Jobs Managing Director David Michaux.

“Malaysian ICT professionals have earned the reputation of being both qualified and capable and this country is emerging as a significant contributor to the global ICT industry in both human capital and technological innovation,” said Michaux. “Unfortunately, wages in Malaysia are not aligned with global pay scales. A capable information security professional can expect to earn between three to four times their Malaysian wage in an equivalent position in the Middle East or Europe”, added Michaux.

“Malaysia and Bulgaria are both homes to communities of highly skilled information security professionals, that until recently, have been largely underrated by the global IT community,” said Tsvetan Dobrev, CEO, NDMTeam “Our collaboration with HITB in HITB Jobs is happening at the most opportune time as the HITB Security Conference makes significant strides into Europe through HITB Amsterdam,” he added.

HITBSecConf has earned high regard within the information security community and the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA) recently held an inter-university hacking competition, rewarding the winners with registrations for the HITB’s popular Capture-the-Flag hacking competition On October 7th and 8th in Kuala Lumpur.

According to data presented by Gartner at its Information Security Summit 2009, the global information security market is expected to grow by 8 percent in 2010 to USD16.3 billion (RM56.7 billion). Accompanying this increased spending in information security infrastructure is a growing demand by companies across the world to find ways to wrest the greatest business benefit from their investment. For many companies this is through bringing their information security ‘in house’ and freeing themselves of the expensive product-driven service contracts of security vendors.

 “One of our strongest differentiators at HITB Jobs is our close affiliation with Hack In The Box (HITB). By leveraging HITB’s wide range of security technologies, we’re able to truly measure and quantify the skills of information security professionals and test the claims set forth in their resumes,” said Michaux. “As businesses look for greater industry knowledge and place less emphasis on technical qualifications, our independent validation of real-world information security skills allows our clients to hire fresh graduates and uncertified professionals with confidence and vastly expands the talent pool available to us,” he added.

For more information about HITB Jobs and its recruitment drive please visit http://jobs.hackinthebox.org from October 7th onwards.

 

 

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