Page 4 - InformationSecurity

Policy Initiatives

1 Focus of Policy

Taiwan has adopted strategies and regulations in support of the
development of the information security industry in recent years. The Executive
Yuan announced the "Phase 5 National Strategy for Cybersecurity Development
Program (2017-2020)" in November 2017 and included "enhanced development
of the domestic information security industry" as one of its goals. The four major
strategies that focus on "comprehensive information security infrastructure,
establishment of a joint national information security defense system,
improvement of autonomous capabilities of the information security industry,
and cultivation of information security professionals" were introduced. In March
2018, the "Information Security Industry Development Action Plan" was further
announced. The goal is to cultivate 40 information security startups, increase
employment in the information security industry to 10,000, and to increase the
information security's output value to NT$78 billion by 2025. The President,
during her inauguration speech in May 2020, included information security as
one of the six major core strategic industries in order to develop an information
security industry that combines 5G, digital transformation, and national security.
The Department of Cyber Security under the Executive Yuan is currently
preparing the "Draft Phase 6 National Strategy for Cybersecurity Development
Program (2021-2024)," which sets out three major goals: "make Taiwan become
the research and training hub for information security in the Asia-Pacific
region," "build a proactive safeguard network," and "create a network security
environment through collaboration between the public and private sectors."
By achieving these goals, we can turn Taiwan into a "smart nation" with robust
security.

Taiwan's "Cyber Security Management Act," which officially took effect
on January 1, 2019, will contribute to the effective planning of information and
communication security management policies and provide for their enforcement
in government agencies and specific non-government agencies (including key
infrastructure providers, state-owned enterprises, and government-endowed
foundations) to expedite the construction and improvement of a cybersecurity
environment in Taiwan and to protect national security and the public interest.

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