Taiwan sets up US-backed cyber unit to hunt hidden military threats
Taiwanese defence minister says exchanges with the US are ‘even more extensive than you might imagine’
According to the budget plan, which still needs legislative approval, the programme would focus on “proactive cyber threat hunting”, moving the military beyond conventional defences, such as firewalls and post-attack remediation, towards actively searching networks for hidden threats.
Taiwan’s defence ministry did not identify where the foreign instructors would come from, but local media reports suggest they would mainly be from the United States. The instructors are expected to introduce realistic adversarial training comparable to the US military’s Cyber Flag exercises, according to the Taipei-based Liberty Times.
Like detectives following clues, team members would be trained to search military networks and critical infrastructure during peacetime for hostile hackers bypassing existing defences and concealing themselves inside systems, the outlet said.