Vice Premier Chang San-cheng today presided over an academic symposium on cultivating the nation's information-security talent.
Academics and representatives from related sectors were invited to share their opinions. They expressed great support and approval for the administration's incorporation of industry, government, academic and research institute resources to reduce the disparity between learning and practical application in order to foster the nation's information-security elites.
The Executive Yuan's Office of Information and Communication Security (OICS) stated that in light of the increasingly severe threats to the nation's information security by hackers over a long period of time, the Executive Yuan formulated the National Strategy for Cybersecurity Development Program 2013-2016. Through the Awareness and Training Working Group under the National Information and Communication Security Taskforce, the Ministry of Education—the working group's chief organizing agency—collaborates with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Economic Affairs, and industrial, academic and research sectors to cultivate and consolidate the nation's information-security personnel.
The OICS pointed out that relevant agencies have formulated five major axes—curriculum, platform, competition, internship, and academic and industrial collaboration—to reinforce the cultivation of information-security personnel in order to thoroughly realize the objective of aligning training with application.
Relevant tasks include designing systematic curricula, developing new forms of practical courses, capitalizing on the MOST's National Center for High-performance Computing platform, encouraging students to participate in both local and overseas competitions, and participating in academia-industry cooperation programs.
All these require the support and endorsement of academia in order to help the nation cultivate information-security elites. This will help ensure people's digital welfare, develop up-and-coming information-security businesses, and usher in digital homeland and national security.