Taiwan emphasises collaboration with India in cyber security research

Prof. Chin Tsan Wang, Director of Science and Technology, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India, addressed the ‘Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021’ on day-two of the event. He focused on establishing a win-win solution for both Taiwan and India through promotion and cooperation on the regional platform, be it South Asian or Indo-Pacific partnerships

Bengaluru: The India-Taiwan bilateral relation has been expanding in recent times with the collaboration in several areas including cyber security. In this context, Prof. Chin Tsan Wang, Director, Science, and Technology, Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India, focused on establishing a win-win solution for both the countries through promotion and cooperation on the regional platform, be it South Asian or Indo-Pacific partnerships.

Participating in a session on ‘Cyber Security and Related Research Applications’ at the ‘Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021’, on the second day of the summit, he said that the Government of Taiwan, like that of India, has started various initiatives to revive the economy post-Covid crisis, among which developments in science and technology are inevitable.

“The world is changing in the AI age, so setting a safe cyber security is necessary”, he said further expressing Taiwan’s interest in collaborating with India to boost research in the field of cyber security.

Partnering with Taiwanese companies is an easy way to set up cyber-infrastructure effectively, by setting up research and training centres, and innovation hubs in India and Taiwan, he added, lauding the country’s Digital India initiative.

Dr Yi-Lang Tsai, Research Fellow and Division Director, National Centre for High-Performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, discussed the cyber range designs for the defence of critical national infrastructure.

Listing the initiatives of Taiwan, Dr. Tsai mentioned that his country’s Security Operation Center primarily carries out research on cyber security and provides related services. He also said that Science Park- Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (SP-ISAC) has been established for increased cooperation among Taiwan science parks.

The session focused on conducting Cyber Defence Exercises and improving hands-on training and challenge platforms for students which would be useful for human skill development in the field.