Call for close ties with Taiwan

By Pallavi Dubey | NT

Bengaluru: The Indo-Taiwan bilateral relation has been ever-expanding and a Tawian official has called for greater collaboration in the field of cyber security.

During a session on Cyber Security and Related Research Applications’ at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021’, Prof Chin Tsan Wang, Director, Science, and Technology, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India said the Government of Taiwan has launched various initiatives to revive the economy post COVID-19, including development in science and technology.

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

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

Dr Yi-Lang Tsai, Research Fellow & Division Director, National Center for High-Performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, discussed the cyber range designs for the defence of national critical infrastructure. The major aspects to broaden cyber security supporting issues were two, namely platform and test bed enhancements, and data understanding and improvement, he opined.

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

He explained about the large-scale threat detection system like Hybrid Intrusion Detection System, which uses distributed Honeynet system for sensor deployment and data collection, provides threat intelligence and establishes malware knowledge base. He added that Taiwan’s high-performance computing platform takes about 90 seconds to be set up, making for their top-notch security information techniques.