Frost & Sullivan: Amid an evolving global risk landscape, Taiwan vendors redefine cybersecurity innovation

Domestic vendors with next-generation skill sets are competing on the global stage

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SINGAPORE
- Media OutReach - 3 December
2019 – The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan,
collaborated with Frost & Sullivan to develop a set of comprehensive case
studies to showcase the region’s brightest security innovators.

“The cybersecurity
industry has a history of developing homegrown solutions in Taiwan. Government
initiatives have driven awareness and the development of cybersecurity
solutions in recent years. The complex and sophisticated cyber attacks nowadays
are fostering specialized, homegrown cybersecurity solutions in Taiwan,” said Amy Lin, Industry Analyst, Cybersecurity, Frost &
Sullivan.

Taiwan already has fairly wide awareness
and reach in the global IT hardware industry, contributing a sizable portion of
the global cybersecurity hardware appliance market. Its expertise in the world of
integrated device security and competitive advantage in hardware-software
integration have given it a unique advantage in the security market amid the
global proliferation of connected devices. This background enables vendors in
Taiwan to gain proven skills in complex integrations and enhance their product
suites by pairing with other best-of-breed hardware and software technologies.

The Taiwan government has established a
plan to invest around 400 million USD on cybersecurity from 2017 to 2020, to enhance
the cybersecurity capabilities of the government. This investment expansion in
local talent and technologies has allowed for a fast-paced, collaborative, and
creative mix of both start-ups and incumbents. These vendors have moved out of
security comfort zones, driving disruptions in greener pastures ranging from
IoT and mobile device solutions to blockchain and artificial intelligence-powered
technologies.

Security solutions from key players like
Onward
Security, Lydsec,
ARCRAN, CyCraft,
WiSecure
Technologies, Billows
Technology, BlockChain Security,
Ecolux, KeyXentic, and CHT Security have found wide adoption among the government, financial, and
manufacturing sectors in Taiwan. While steadily increasing their market shares
within home base Taiwan, these vendors have also been extending their flagship
products’ footprints to global markets in other parts of Southeast Asia and
North America.

Success Showcase

The following customer stories showcase
Taiwanese vendors’ proven track record of building innovative and customized
security solutions for their key customers:

• ARCRAN’s
  cybersecurity expertise focuses on providing IoT and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
  security solutions through wireless signal detection. One of ArcRan’s clients used the iSecMaster solution in its smart factory to reduce the
  signal-recognition misjudgment rate in their smart factories from a staggering
  20% to less than 0.5%.
• Billows Technology provides security solutions and services spanning
  two primary areas, audit management and security information and event management
  (SIEM). One of its clients, a premier local railway network, used Billows’ solution to enhance its threat detection and reduce
  incident response time to ensure safer passenger journeys.
• BlockChain Security
  has been providing blockchain, evidence preservation, and security forensic
  solutions for over 10 years. One of its law firm clients struggled with large volumes of complex
  document management and the resultant security needs; the BlockChain Witness
  platform successfully reduced its operational time from over 20 hours to about 10
  minutes.
• CHT Security is a leading managed
  security service provider (MSSP) in Taiwan but also
  provides broad solutions and products covering major aspects of enterprise security, such as network and endpoint security, professional services, and digital identity services. CHT Security used a homegrown red team
  assessment approach on its financial services client. The approach helped discover
  over 30 system flaws within only a week.
• CyCraft
  focuses on AI-driven cyber resilience. Its CyCarrier’s AIR platform automates
  SOC operations, forensics, detection, and response operations. When one of its clients was about to begin a
  critical acquisition, the
  platform was able to shorten the cybersecurity investigation from several
  months to just a few days,
  reducing
  investigation time, cost, and labor by over 99%.
• ECOLUX’s primary focus is on chipset firmware protection. Leveraging the AI-powered smart device security solution, the ECOLUX’s AISP Home Guardian directly targets intrusion
  detection on smart devices, finding and blocking attacks immediately. The
  solution helped a major smart home specialist provide end-to-end device
  security on its smart lock products.
• KeyXentic’s
  products, the
  Keyxentic Token and Smart Terminal, apply biometric identification technology to replace traditional password-based services that make
  encryption easy and accessible. When
  its banking client was struggling to find an iOS-compatible vendor, KeyXentic came to the
  rescue with its Smart Terminal, securing the bank’s extensive network of
  self-service iPads.
• Lydsec’s
  key solution, Keypasco, focuses on multifactor identity authentication that
  includes functionalities such as geolocation, device fingerprinting,
  two-channel structure identification, and PKI signing. A key financial service client using the
  vendor’s Keypasco solution saved up to 70% in authentication costs.
• Onward Security has
  a one-stop integrated suite of
  services and products for IoT, mobile devices, and network vulnerabilities. When
  one of its clients was struggling with maintaining security standards to mitigate
  key clients churn, Onward helped ramp up its product security standards and retained
  accounts worth $400 million.
• WiSecure Technologies’ product is the KeyVault Hardware Security
  Module. When its public sector client needed a secure communication layer,
  WiSECURE’s ?SD/X was able to integrate into Signal’s
  cross-platform application, bulking up the client’s SCA prevention strategy
  through cryptographic algorithms.

Local vendors in Taiwan have curated a background of
targeting highly specific business cases focused on discovering less known,
complex attacks that other vendors are still not addressing. Given Taiwan’s unique strengths, integrated
hardware and software expertise, and innovation potential in Asia-Pacific, its local
vendors are making significant inroads into the global security marketplace — a
space ripe for disruption.

For more information about Taiwan’s cybersecurity
solutions, please check the online
catalogue.

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