CONSENSUS: In a rare display of cross-party unity, DPP and KMT lawmakers approved the law to push forward a national information and communication security policy
Taipei Times
Date: May 12, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Lawmakers across party lines yesterday passed the Information and Communication Security Management Act (資通安全管理法) to tackle the challenges posed by threats to government information security by deploying public and private resources.
The passage of the act provided a rare example of cross-party unity, with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus agreeing to let motions filed by the Democratic Progressive Party caucus to revise several key articles pass without requesting that they be put to vote.
Under the act, the Executive Yuan — the agency governing the act — should plan and push forward a national information and communication security policy, facilitate development of a local information security sector and promote international exchanges.
It should regularly publish reports on the level of the nation’s information security and government agencies’ performance in safeguarding their data, the act says.
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