New Taipei City, following its recognition with the Best in Future of Trust at IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Awards, has once again received international acclaim for its "Zero Trust Cybersecurity Collaborative Defense System". By implementing user authentication, application authentication, device authentication, and trust mechanism, the system creates segmentation and isolated threats, achieving comprehensive integration of monitoring, analysis, collaboration, and automation. This year, the system participated in the 6th edition The Open Group India Awards 2024, obtaining the prestigious "Promising Project of Future Potential" certification. The award ceremony held on July 31 in New Delhi, India. This certification once again demonstrates New Taipei City's capability and vision in safeguarding people's information security, which is widely recognized internationally.
The Open Group's international awards are held across different regions worldwide, with the Asian region hosted by India. Participating teams across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and African regions, with the aim of fostering global collaboration, facilitating international product and service exchange, and enhancing regulatory requirements. These awards play a critical role in achieving industry interoperability while promoting the adoption of open standards, open source software, and technologies. This year's competition was particularly fierce, with over 30 proposals submitted.
The Open Group has declared that Zero Trust is a significant evolution in cybersecurity strategy, governance, and operations. Information Management Center of the New Taipei City Government has embarked on a forward-thinking and challenging initiative, significantly enhancing cybersecurity on a large scale. This success has already delivered immense value. The scope and complexity of this project have achieved short-term milestones at this stage and hold transformative potential for the future.
Chen Fu-Tien, Director of the Information Management Center, stated that this certification is a significant affirmation of New Taipei City's cybersecurity capabilities. The New Taipei City oversees 489 agencies, 2,000 systems, and over 60,000 employees serving the public. As one of Taiwan's largest cities, the city government manages data asset for over 4 million citizens. Facing with attacks from external and internal hacker, through the Zero Trust Cybersecurity Collaborative Defense System integrates regional collaborative defense structures and SOAR unified command to consolidate the cybersecurity defense system effectively. From creating segmentation to isolated threats mechanisms, it invested two-pronged approach from external to internal, in addition to providing vertical defense depth deployment and horizontal proliferation prevention and detection, enhancing the data asset of citizens by troughing centralized command systems and cross-departmental regional collaborative defense.
The Open Group's international awards are held across different regions worldwide, with the Asian region hosted by India. Participating teams across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and African regions, with the aim of fostering global collaboration, facilitating international product and service exchange, and enhancing regulatory requirements. These awards play a critical role in achieving industry interoperability while promoting the adoption of open standards, open source software, and technologies. This year's competition was particularly fierce, with over 30 proposals submitted.
The Open Group has declared that Zero Trust is a significant evolution in cybersecurity strategy, governance, and operations. Information Management Center of the New Taipei City Government has embarked on a forward-thinking and challenging initiative, significantly enhancing cybersecurity on a large scale. This success has already delivered immense value. The scope and complexity of this project have achieved short-term milestones at this stage and hold transformative potential for the future.
Chen Fu-Tien, Director of the Information Management Center, stated that this certification is a significant affirmation of New Taipei City's cybersecurity capabilities. The New Taipei City oversees 489 agencies, 2,000 systems, and over 60,000 employees serving the public. As one of Taiwan's largest cities, the city government manages data asset for over 4 million citizens. Facing with attacks from external and internal hacker, through the Zero Trust Cybersecurity Collaborative Defense System integrates regional collaborative defense structures and SOAR unified command to consolidate the cybersecurity defense system effectively. From creating segmentation to isolated threats mechanisms, it invested two-pronged approach from external to internal, in addition to providing vertical defense depth deployment and horizontal proliferation prevention and detection, enhancing the data asset of citizens by troughing centralized command systems and cross-departmental regional collaborative defense.
