AwanBiru Technology Berhad - Annual Report 2021

MSWG has also ranked Awantec on the 75 th place amongst 851 other public listed companies that were assessed in the List of Top 100 Companies for Corporate Governance Disclosure, which speaks volume of our commitment towards driving good corporate governance. The recognition by MSWG is a reflection of Awantec’s commitment in upholding the highest standard of corporate governance. Guided by our Corporate Governance framework and strategies, we will continue to create more values for all of our stakeholders, moving forward. Our approach to privacy and personal data protection is outlined in the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Notice, which is available on our website https://www.awantec.my and featured on notice of agreements for subscribers of our services. In the financial year under review, we have recorded 1 cyber- attack incident and zero breach of data privacy incidents. One of our digital assets was affected by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that originated from Indonesia. We have resolved the issue in less than one hour, and preventive measures such as placing stricter access restrictions, subscriptions to monitoring tools for our digital assets, reconfiguration of firewall settings, web services and passwords have been taken as well to avoid future incidents. Routinely, we continue to patch our systems with security updates and protect our systems from unauthorised internal or external access using internally developed security procedures and practices as well. Keeping Our Supply Chain Sustainable As a Digital Transformer, our supply chain of products and services under the technology vertical are in most cases, procured for Government agencies and public training institutes in Malaysia. As for our talent vertical, our products and services are typically intended to nurture, optimise, and supply talents through all input channels in delivering quality talents to meet the human capital needs of industries. We source for products and services for both our operations and capital expenditure, ranging from cloud computing services, software, network equipment, infrastructure, all the way to consultations and building management services to drive our daily operations. Operating in Cyberjaya, the heart of Malaysia's digital economy, we take cognisance of our responsibility towards driving the local economy. In this aspect, we have maintained local vendors as the majority of our suppliers throughout the financial year under review. Keeping Our Data Safe Data privacy continues to be our top priority. In compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, we have in place a strict data protection policy to protect all personal information and data gathered, or to be gathered throughout any dealings with us. This ensures that our collection, use, disclosure and care of personal data relating to individual end-customers, business- to-business customers, employees, directors as well the third parties with whom we work with are consistent with local applicable laws, as well as our internal policies and procedures to avoid any loss, misuse and unauthorised alteration. Sustainability | Awantec 77 Annual Report 2021