Taiwan intends to establish a national cybersecurity team. Taiwan’s Central News Agency reports that the team will both strengthen Taiwan’s cybersecurity and target the international market to provide advanced cybersecurity solutions.
A report from Taiwan’s Executive Yuan proposes to create an interdisciplinary team of experts. Taiwan plans to hire at least 80 additional experts over the next four years to help cultivate cyber information security talent.
In order to achieve Taiwan’s goal of entering the international market for network information security solutions, the Executive Yuan proposed in the report the establishment of a cybersecurity center of excellence that will focus on research and development of technologies for network security, information security and cryptographic security.
Last month, the Taiwan government allocated a budget of NT$818 million (US$28 million) for the center’s construction. The construction project is expected to be completed by 2022.
According to statistics from the Information and Communications Technology Security Division of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan, recently cited by Taiwanese media, the number of attacks on Taiwanese government websites has been as high as 40 million per month. A 2019 report by Check Point, an Israeli company that provides information security software and hardware services, found that the number of hacker attacks on Taiwan was more than twice the global average.
Voice of America Special Correspondent in Taipei, Li-Ling Huang, reported earlier, citing a source with knowledge of the situation, that nearly 90 percent of the cyberattack threats suffered by Taiwan came from China, with the Chinese government behind them. In some cases, the Investigation Bureau under Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice was unable to confirm what data had been stolen by the attacked government departments.
According to the results of the World Digital Competitiveness 2020 survey released by the Lausanne Institute of Management in Switzerland on October 1, Taiwan’s rankings in the “talent” and “training and education” categories have improved.
According to Taiwan’s National Development Council, Taiwan is ranked 5th in the world for innovative technologies for digital development, up 4 spots from last year. This indicator assesses a country’s ability to develop innovative digital technologies. In terms of future readiness, Taiwan ranked 8th, also up 4 spots from last year. Future readiness assesses the country’s degree of digital transformation.
Tsai’s government recently linked five key industries – semiconductors, the Internet of Things, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and the 5G industry – to the country’s information technology plan. According to the Central News Agency, these areas span IT and digital, defense, green energy, renewable energy, biotechnology, and more.
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