The Republic of China’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has participated in a multinational exercise held by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for the first time.
The event is the ninth iteration of “Cyber Storm,” which focused on information sharing, policy, procedures, and applications between nine nations.
It involved 2,200 participants from 300 organizations, over 80 private industry partners, and 35 federal departments and agencies.
Drills involved simulation of discovery and mitigation of large-scale and coordinated digital attacks that real-world actors conduct to infiltrate critical infrastructure, with lessons tailored to levels of staff involved in cyber incident response.
Enemy teams had an agenda and were supported by resources to facilitate their assaults according to the exercise’s objectives, while areas of response covered traditional and social media websites as well as the dark web.
Neihu-based news agency Taipei Times reported that Taiwan’s digital affairs administration joined the exercise in a remote setup.
Representatives from the government’s National Defense Ministry Information, Communications, and Electronic Force Command and the National Institute of Cyber Security were also present.
The team then exchanged information with US counterparts after consolidation and analysis of necessary data and threat warnings improved through the exercise.
Taipei Times said that both parties called the drills a success.
For the next step, the Taiwanese government plans to integrate lessons acquired through Cyber Storm IX into its local response applications “ to better prepare for security incidents,” the report said.