By Sean Lin / Staff reporterLawmakers across party lines yesterday passed the Information and Communication Security Management Act (資通安全管理法) to tackle the challenges posed by threats to government information security by deploying public and private resources. Under the act, the Executive Yuan — the agency governing the act — should plan and push forward a national information and communication security policy, facilitate development of a local information security sector and promote international exchanges. It should regularly publish reports on the level of the nation’s information security and government agencies’ performance in safeguarding their data, the act says. In addition, the Executive Yuan is to establish a channel of communication between agencies to facilitate exchanges of intelligence on information security and threats. Agencies at all levels should devise reporting and response measures and report to the Executive Yuan and, if applicable, their parent agencies, whenever they encounter an information security event.

Source: Taipei Times May 11, 2018 15:56 UTC