TAIPEI, Taiwan －The Institute for Information Industry’s Cloud-Threat Intelligence Appliance (CIA) team participated in The Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA Awards) competition and in the final round for the Asia Pacific Region received the Gold Winner Award in the Security category.
The APICTA Awards is known as the Oscars of the Asia-Pacific information and communication technology industry, and there are nineteen economically affiliated participants, including Taiwan, Australia, Brunei, Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, The Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The winning CIA system is a defense system for business computers which is capable of effectively detecting new attack pattern targets (APT). The research and development team succeeded in breaking through technical limitations of traditional information security features. The system uses innovative virtual sandbox compartment acceleration technology to significantly enhance the effectiveness and coverage of system detection.
Institute for Information Industry, CyberTrust Technology Institute (CTTI) Director Gao Tian-zhu stated that email is one of the main intrusion routes for hackers; Therefore, when facing ever increasing information security threats, in addition to strengthening in-depth enterprise information security defenses, it is also crucial to stop social engineering hackers from breaking into systems through email the first time.
He also pointed out that the “Cloud-Threat Intelligence Appliance” has both flexible scale-out functionality that filters out all suspicious files in email attachments and self-generating defense rules to produce antibodies.
It integrates the industry’s equipment building defense systems with solutions for weaknesses in existing information security system solutions in order to effectively obstruct new information security threat patterns brought about by APT attacks.
(TR/Phil Sweeney)
