advertorial Ad by IDB (Industry Development Bureau), MOEA, Taiwan. IoT Cybersecurity: Taiwan Plans Ahead With Overt Outcome Since the end of 2017, the Taiwan government has brought together the know-how and resources from the industrial elite, specialists in cyber security, and scholars in the field to work on “The IoT Cyber Security Standards and Testing Specification”, which was officially announced in mid-2018. Today, its proposition for IP Cameras is certified as being the national standard (CNS 16120: IP Cameras), while regulations on other network-connectable devices are still pending in application. These standards and regulations are made to help Taiwan-based manufacturers to design in discreet cyber security mechanisms within their IP Cameras, NVRs and DVRs. Having not only contributed an outstanding performance to the fight against the Covid-19 corona virus epidemic, Taiwan has also worked to create an improved performance in the prevention of hacking of networkable video surveillance devices and systems. The standards for Video Surveillance System Series (TAICS TS0014-1 v2.0—for IP Cameras, TAICS TS-0014-3—for DVR, and TAICS TS-0014-4 v1.0—for NVR) are said to be 72% compliant to the requirements of UL2900, according to III (The Institution for Information Industry), a think tank and R&D organisation for, the Digital Economy, Industrialisation and Talent Cultivation. The standards and regulations will be reviewed and updated under the supervision of III when any industrial feedback or market complaints are raised. Based on the latest standards, in working with TAF1-certified testing labs, TSSIA2 Industrial Association has got the governmental project to offer counseling service since 2018. To date, there are Twenty-two (22) Taiwanbased manufacturers (as shown below) received the service in improving the cyber security in design to their IP Cameras (benefit to 200 models+). Among them, 11 companies have successfully passed their products through the strict Lab testing in compliance to the nation’s IoT Cyber Security Standards & Regulations. As the number of cyberattacks world-wide on IoT devices and consequently on video systems has been much more frequent and is growing at an unprecedented rate, and, bearing in mind, that the continually growing number of IP cameras shipped from Taiwan has reached a figure of 35% – 40% of the total number installed globally. The Taiwan government acknowl-