As the Taiwanese military strengthens military cooperation with the United States, it will push for ..

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As the Taiwanese military strengthens military cooperation with the United States, it will push for a new team dedicated to ‘cyber threat hunting’ to cope with China’s cyber threats. [Chat GPT]

As the Taiwanese military strengthens military cooperation with the United States, it will push for a new team dedicated to ‘cyber threat hunting’ to cope with China’s cyber threats.

According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) on the 7th, the Taiwanese military’s information and communication electronic warfare command plans to allocate T$95.93 million (about 4.07 billion won) to the 2027 budget to create a dedicated team and invite foreign experts and instructors to conduct advanced cyber training.

This dedicated team focuses on preemptive cyber threat elimination. The plan is to investigate military networks and core infrastructure from peacetime, going beyond recovery-oriented defense after existing firewalls or cyberattacks. In particular, it will be in charge of finding and removing intruders and backdoors hidden inside the system before the enemy launches an actual attack.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry did not disclose the nationality of the overseas instructors, but local media predicted that most of them would be from the United States.

According to Taiwan’s Free Times, instructors are also expected to introduce hands-on cyberattack and defense drills similar to the U.S. military’s multinational joint cyber defense training ‘cyber flag’. Task force agents will be trained to bypass existing security networks and find hostile hackers and intelligent persistent threats (APTs) hidden in the system while investigating military networks and core infrastructure.

The plan is being pursued as military cooperation between the United States and Taiwan extends beyond simple arms sales to training, advisory, and military training observations.

Taiwan’s Defense Minister Guri Hsiung also said last month that “exchanges with the United States are much broader than you can imagine” ahead of Taiwan’s biggest annual military exercise, the Han Guang exercise. The U.S. personnel seen at the Taiwanese military training site are only a small part of military cooperation between the two sides, and exchanges with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command are helping Taiwan improve its defense capabilities.

Local media reported that the goal of creating a dedicated team is to raise Taiwan’s cyber capabilities to a level consistent with international military cyber defense practices.