Securing Our Cyberspace

TERM OF REFERENCE

Provision of Automated Online News Visualization Analytics for CyberSecurity

Malaysia

CyberSecurity Malaysia Level 5,

Sapura@Mines No 3, Jalan Tasik Mines Resort City

43300 Seri Kembangan Selangor

Tel +60 3 8946 0999

An agency under

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1.0 OBJECTIVES

CyberSecurity Malaysia, a national cyber security specialist under the purview of the

Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), aims to analyse publicly

available online news sources. By using big data analytic techniques and natural

language processing, the specified news on the internet can be analysed and

visualised with proper contexts and strategic view. Therefore, the objective of this

Request for Proposal (RFP) is to develop an automated online news visualization

analytics for CyberSecurity Malaysia.

2.0 BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION

This project will automatically collect and organize publicly available online news

on topic of interest that can be analysed by using big data analytics and natural

language processing. CyberSecurity Malaysia requires text processing and analytics

capability for entity extraction (Data/Time, People, Organization & Location) that act

as online news discovery and exploration analysis tool (An Automated Online News

Visualization Analytics) for extracting deeper insights to its unstructured textual

data from various online news websites. This discovery and exploration tool will

provide insights either on patterns across time, highlighting specific topic of

interest, aggregating same themes of news from various sources etc. This

capability will then provide actionable insight with comprehensive view on topic of

interest.

3.0 SCOPE OF WORKS/TERM OF REFERENCE

An automated online news visualization analytics development comprises of crawler

robot development, server platform deployment, text processing and analytics

development, full-text search capabilities development and data discovery &

visualization development. The main objective of this project is to visualize various

online news with six different views based on topic of interest. Details of the scope

of work can be referred to Appendix A, B, C and D.

The basic flow of an automated online news visualization analytics is shown in

Figure 1.

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Figure 1 – Basic Flow of an Automated Online News Visualization Analytics

3.1 The system has four (4) major components that need to be deployed and

developed:

a) Server Platform Deployment

This work activity aims to provide basic platform for text processing and

analytics, full-text search, data discovery and visualization activities for

analyzing collected online news sources. Details of the specification can be

referred to Appendix C – Services Requirements.

b) Crawler Robot Development

This work activity aims to collect the targeted from online news websites on

the internet. These collected data sources will be indexed and analyzed

using text analytic techniques for news visualization based on specified news

themes. Details of the specification can be referred to Appendix C – Services

Requirements.

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c) Text Processing and Analytics Development

This work activity aims to provide text query capabilities for structured and

unstructured data in local database and also to perform natural language

processing and text mining on the collected online news to extract named

entity recognition for further analysis. Details of the specification can be

referred to Appendix C – Services Requirements.

d) Data Discovery & Visualization Development

This work activity aims to develop interactive views for news visualization

based on tree-map diagram, news map, news timeline event, news mashup

and other views. These visualization views will produce news patterns across

time, highlighting specific events, people, groups, companies, entities,

industries, methods or locations for cyber threat profiling. Details of the

specification can be referred to Appendix C – Services Requirements.

4.0 POINT OF CONTACT

The bidder shall nominate an executive level within their organization, whom shall

be a full-time employee of the organization, to be the working together with Project

Owner from CyberSecurity Malaysia. The appointed person shall be the single point

of contact between the bidder and CyberSecurity Malaysia.

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