Scientists and researchers participating in projects that would be launched under the soon-to-be established Taiwan Academic Cybersecurity Center must not have participated in studies or projects funded by the Chinese, Hong Kong or Macanese governments, the Executive Yuan said.
The center, which is to be operated by the National Science and Technology Council, is part of Taiwan Information Security Excellence Program approved by the Executive Yuan.
It is to set up branch offices at universities and focus on researching information security issues. Preparations to launch the center are to begin next month.
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SEVEN KEY AREAS
Based on the council’s plan, the center is to target research in seven key areas: artificial intelligence information security, satellite security protection, chip security, post-quantum cryptography, zero trust architecture, resilient networks and next-generation mobile network security.
The council said it would use Taiwan’s advanced semiconductor industry to develop information security technologies, including in authentication, identification and encryption.
Technical verification would be conducted at the Shalun Information Security Service Base in Tainan, it said.
SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
The council would require that project hosts and cohosts as well as full-time personnel on research projects have never participated in research or subsidy programs run by China, Hong Kong or Macau.
They must also have not held teaching positions in China, Hong Kong or Macau in the past five years, including full-time and part-time positions.
All participants in the center’s projects must not have Chinese, Hong Kong or Macanese citizenship, and must not have studied for a degree in China.
The US Department of Commerce is reportedly to organize an information security-related delegation to Taiwan in September.
HIGH VALUE
The output value of Taiwan’s asset security reached NT$60.35 billion (US$1.97 billion) in 2021, and the compound annual growth rate of the asset security output value from 2016 to last year was 11.3 percent, Executive Yuan data showed.
The nation has 50 manufacturers of information security-related products and services, which employ about 9,000 workers.
The structure of the information security industry shows that hardware accounts for 51.3 percent, software accounts for 9.1 percent and services account for 39.6 percent.
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