The Top 10 News and Events of 2008 China Information Security Industry

2008 is about to end, WoSign, the leading information security services provider in China , have released the top 10 news and events of 2008 China Information Security Industry as below (not in any One after another):

1. China surpassed the United States as the world's largest number of Internet users

Till June 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users reached 253 million, the No.1 Internet users in the world. And TCP port 443 traffic ranked No. 4 in 2007 rose to No. 2 in 2008, indicating a large number of websites have been deployed SSL certificate to ensure the online security of confidential information.

2. Telecommunications operators paying attention to information security and confidentiality of users

China Telecom, China Mobile provincial branch has already deployed SSL certificate to ensure the safety of users of confidential information, indicating that China 's telecommunications operators from the start with all aspects of international operators in line for telecommunications users with a more secure and reliable information services.

3. The financial crisis sweeping the globe, more investment value in information security

Global financial turmoil from the financial sector spread to other industries, enterprises are facing the leakage of business confidential from staff leave, so strengthen the protection of business secrets and lower business operating costs is the first consideration. The security-related service providers have tremendous business opportunities. Enterprise Information Security to buy products (including SSL certificate) will be more rational, more emphasis on higher performance/cost rate, rather than blindly pursuing the famous brand.

4. "2008 Using Online Banking Securely" in a joint promotional theme: Build Green Online Banking

April 2 18 domestic banks to join hands to start "2008 Using Online Banking Securely" promotion, build a green Internet banking channel, to create a safer use of Internet banking environment for all Internet users. The event launched by 18 banks that the green channel come from the three constitute the core system: EV SSL certificates, the interaction mechanisms of Internet banking anti-virus and anti-fraud, from the anti-fishing website, the Trojan horse virus, anti-theft, the fight against network crime to provide all-round protection for Internet banking users.

5. Olympic information security guaranteed

The complete success of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is closely related to the strong protection of the more than 17,000 information systems security, including servers, network switches, routers, application software systems.

6. “Symbian Summit” was first held in Beijing

2008 Symbian Summit to be held on June 5th, 2008, the first time held in China.The Symbian Summit invites major stakeholders in China wireless value chain across the country to celebrate Symbian 's past ten years. During the Summit, it conduct in depth discussions based on the themes of Tomorrow's Technology Today's Phone and focus on the topics of smart phone technology , and the "smart phone platform security and code security" is the most attention.

7. Earthquakes & snowstorms donation sites have been faked

The Internet users have unprecedented scale of contributions to the earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan Province and the South Snow Disaster, so the small amount online donations have been generally welcomed. However, the donation websites have been faked by criminals since those website don't deploy SSL certificate site that easy to counterfeit.By contrast, President-Elect Barrack Obama's on-line fund-raising Website has deployed the SSL certificate, so that the donors ensure the personal confidential information is secure, and the fund-raising Website will not be faked.

8. 2008 Chinese Internet security emergency response annual meeting & China Internet Association Internet security annual meeting was held in Shenzhen

April 7-9, 2008, 月 This annual meeting hosted by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordinator (CNCERT) and the Information Security Working Committee of China Internet Association in Shenzhen. And Xi Guohua, the vice minister of the Ministry of Information Industry of China, come to the meeting to congratulate and keynoted "Strengthening network security, help the Beijing Olympic Games". The a nnual meeting has 4 sub-forums: "e-government security", "e-commerce and financial security", "ISP & ICP security" and "information security technology", the leaders, experts and scholars exchanged and discussed deeply about the e-government and e-commerce security, i nfrastructure network security, foster a healthy and orderly culture of information security, network security emergency international cooperation, the network security incidents emergency response in some key cities, security loopholes current situation and development trend, and many other topics.

9. Ministry of Public Security to carry out the 2008 Annual Survey on Information Security

The public information security supervision bureau of Ministry of Public Security carries out the annual state of the national information security and computer virus outbreak survey from April 26 to May 26, 2008. Survey shows that China information security incident, comparing the proportion of growth in the previous 3 years, this year have a slight decline, a ratio of 62.7%, year-on-year decrease of 3%; computer virus infection rate was 85.5%, year-on-year decrease of 6%, the data show that the Internet security in China has improved. However, the repeat network security incidents ratio of 50% and the repeat virus infection ratio was 66.8% means that the information security awareness of China Internet users is still relatively weak; the occurrence of network security incidents did not give enough attention.

10. To build the credibility of Internet, " China Anti-fishing Union " to set up

July 18, 2008, domestic banks, securities companies, e-commerce sites, domain name registration authorities, domain name registration services, composed of experts and scholars, all joined to set up “China Anti-fishing Union" in Beijing . The Union has established a mechanism to resolve and stop fishing website that use .cn domain names more quickly and in time by terminate the resolution of the domain name, to build a credible Internet in China.