Taiwan's Institute for Information Security announces "National Cybersecurity Protection 2.0": starting April 2027, AI agents will conduct red team penetration of government agencies

Gong Huazhong, president of Taiwan's Institute for Information Security, unveiled the "National Cybersecurity Protection 2.0" blueprint, advocating "using AI to fight AI." The AI red team penetration exercise will target government agencies from April to October next year, with the institute designing attack techniques itself and having AI agents execute them. The four key tasks also include AI-automated source code detection and patching, fully automated analysis of global threat intelligence using large language models and conversion into boundary device blocking rules, and establishing a national-level AI cybersecurity attack-defense sandbox. The forward-looking research center is centered on agentic AI, advancing with a first-year establishment followed by four years of expanded deployment.