The Information Security Administration of the Ministry of Digital Development held the "2026 Forward-looking Information Security Exploration Conference" (ACE) today (4th), inviting government representatives and information security experts from the United States, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom to participate.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), cyber attack methods have become increasingly sophisticated, and information security threats have gradually expanded to critical infrastructure and global supply chains. The Information Security Administration of the Ministry of Digital Development held the "2026 Forward-looking Information Security Exploration Conference" (ACE) today (4th), inviting international government representatives and information security experts from the United States, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom to focus on issues such as information security governance, international regulations, and supply chain security in the AI era.
The "Forward-looking Information Security Exploration Conference" has been held for the fourth time this year since it was held in 2023. It will be held in Taipei from November 4th to 5th. With the theme of "New Information Security in the AI Era: National Strategy, Information Security Governance to Supply Chain Security", it covers the two main axes of "National Policies and AI New Situations" and "International Regulatory Trends and Creating Trustworthy Supply Chains" to explore topics such as AI security, digital sovereignty and emerging technology risk management.
In terms of critical infrastructure protection, we invite experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, my country's National Information Security Research Institute, government agencies and industry to discuss the resilience and continued operation of critical infrastructure under AI threats.
In terms of supply chain security, the conference invited government and industry representatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Estonia, the European Union, and Taiwan to exchange views on international information security regulations, information security standards, and enterprise risk management. Topics included the British Cyber Essentials information security certification, the semiconductor industry SEMI E187 information security standard, and practical experience in enterprise supply chain risk management and continuous verification.
Minister of Digital Development Lin Yi-king shared Taiwan’s practical experience and digital resilience strategies in facing high-intensity cyber attacks at the meeting. He pointed out that Taiwan's government network suffers an average of about 2.8 million intrusion attempts every day. With the accelerated development of AI technology, network attacks have become more automated and large-scale, posing new challenges to national security and critical infrastructure. In response to information security threats, Taiwan has actively promoted three protection strategies, including: using AI to strengthen information security defense, establishing an information security protection mechanism covering the semiconductor industry chain, and reducing unnecessary network connections to reduce potential attack surfaces.
The Information Security Administration stated that in the future, it will continue to learn from international information security governance experience, deepen cross-border information security information sharing and public-private collaboration, and use the results of the conference exchanges as a reference to improve Taiwan's information security policies and protection mechanisms, and strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure and industrial supply chains.
