According to the 1Q 2021 “Taiwan Information Security Threat Intelligence” released by Fortinet’s information security threat intelligence center FortiGuard Labs on May 11, the rise of smart home devices and the explosive growth of edge devices in Taiwan have made remote workers the target of cyber criminals. The figure shows the schematic diagram of hacker network attacks.
Network information security vendor Fortinet published the latest information security threat report in Taiwan, pointing out that in the first quarter of 2021, Taiwan suffered more than 2 million cyber attacks, among which botnet attacks related to Chinese communist hackers and targeting IoT devices are the main ones.
According to the 1Q 2021 “Taiwan Information Security Threat Intelligence” released by Fortinet’s information security threat intelligence center FortiGuard Labs on May 11, the rise of smart home devices in Taiwan and the explosive growth of edge devices have made remote workers the target of cyber criminals.
The report also shows that cyber criminals are able to launch attacks on home routers due to the gap in information security skills and the lack of awareness of security among employees, causing IoT devices to be hacked and stealing sensitive information.
Lin Le, Taiwan manager of FortiGuard R&D Center, said the biggest information security trends in the first half of 2021 include increasingly severe cryptographic ransom attacks on global infrastructure. Attacks on the supply chain are redefining the zero-trust network architecture, and software that was originally trusted needs to be taken into account for protection.
Fortinet also announced that Taiwan is an important partner of Fortinet, and more than 85% of Fortinet products have been manufactured and exported in Taiwan, and will continue to strengthen the supply chain of Taiwan’s information security industry and cultivate local information security talents.
Fortinet North Asia General Manager Chen Hong-xiang said that Fortinet has been deeply involved in Taiwan for nearly 20 years, and is the benchmark for U.S. companies to invest in Taiwan. In addition to investing in the development of Taiwan’s hardware information security supply chain, Fortinet will also work with the government to create an information security cultivation environment and cultivate information security professionals in the future, in line with the Executive Yuan’s “Information Security Industry Development Action Plan”.
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