Taiwan is to announce in August a joint cybersecurity center to implement major initiatives as part of a pivot from the current incrementalist strategy, the National Institute of Cyber Security Research said.
In its weekly gazette published on Wednesday last week, the institute said that Taiwan is facing severe cybersecurity threats from Chinese state-backed hackers, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technology, ransomware and intellectual property theft.
Taiwan must dramatically increase its cybersecurity capabilities, enhance its cooperation with international partners and adopt a proactive defense strategy, it said.
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The center is to oversee the nation’s “four pillars of cybersecurity” — societal resilience, defense of homeland and critical infrastructures, protecting crucial industries and supply chains, and safe AI use, it said.
An overarching security framework composed of multiple government ministries and strategic global partnerships would be created, the institute said.
The proposed center is to map the nation’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities to identify national-level threats and track global trends, it said.
It would be tasked with collaborating with government agencies and private entities, and monitoring developments across industries and the global community, it said.
The national cybersecurity conference and cybersecurity funding would be regularized to facilitate the government’s promulgation of cybersecurity policies, and allocate resources to defend critical infrastructure and government offices, it said.
The conference would also oversee collaborations between the government, private entities and key industries toward protecting information, it said.
The specific policies to be promulgated would include implementing the zero trust principle, achieving quantum encoding technologies, broadening international cybersecurity alliances and boosting public vigilance, it said.
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