How does Cybersecurity Changsha protect the Internet? Uncovering the "shield" of the digital economy in the "City of Smart Manufacturing"｜Changsha's New Quality View④
2024-08-15
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan. As a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation forms a historic intersection with China's accelerated transformation of its economic development model, the development of new quality productivity has become an important measure to consolidate the material and technological foundation for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, and it is an inevitable trend.
Those who observe the trend are wise, those who analyze the trend are intelligent, and those who follow the trend will succeed. Based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we will go to key cities covered by major regional strategies to find the shining highlights of China's technological innovation and industrial innovation, and start the third season of the in-depth investigation of digitalization of enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. From May to August this year, Yangcheng Evening News will join hands with many media outlets across the country to carry out the national tour of new quality productivity. Through in-depth research and reporting, we will present to readers a "renewed" picture of new quality productivity with a surge in technological innovation, a rise in industrial iteration, and a surging momentum of digitalization.
The enterprise server was infected with a ransomware virus, and hundreds of virtual machines were encrypted, affecting production; data of government agencies were inexplicably lost, and online systems suffered a major impact; collectors that can read NFC data "through the air" within a radius of three meters... In the wave of digital transformation, similar cases of network security are everywhere. Strengthening network security has become a key link that cannot be ignored by enterprises, and it can be called the last foundation of the digital economy.
As a national advanced manufacturing cluster, Changsha's new generation of autonomous and secure computing system clusters has a scale of over 200 billion yuan, driving the scale of the digital economy to exceed 1.5 trillion yuan, and has created 8 national-level platforms such as network security and industrial Internet. How does Changsha launch the "offensive and defensive battle" to protect network security? Yangcheng Evening News and Changsha Evening News jointly went deep into the front line of scientific innovation and industry to explore the "shield" of the digital economy of "the first city of network security in central China".
Build a city public "safety wall"
"Our country's cybersecurity 1.0 era was ushered in by the information system level protection, which is divided into five levels. Many units purchased some cybersecurity equipment in accordance with the second and third level requirements. It was not until 2016 that the cybersecurity department organized the first large-scale real-network attack and defense exercise. This exercise made everyone realize that only meeting the requirements of cybersecurity level protection cannot completely solve the network security problem." said Wang Xin, general manager of Qi'an Xingcheng Cybersecurity Technology (Hunan) Co., Ltd.
In 2017, a large-scale ransomware infection broke out around the world. The virus attacked the host and encrypted the files stored on the host, and then demanded a ransom in the form of Bitcoin. "The emergence of ransomware has made everyone realize that data has become the 'lifeline' of many units or enterprises." Wang Xin told reporters that it was also in this year that the basic law of cybersecurity, the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China", was officially implemented.
Why does Changsha focus on the cybersecurity industry chain?
In June 2019, the "National Cybersecurity Industrial Park Development Plan" was officially released, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and Beijing decided to build a national cybersecurity industrial park. In June 2020, the second national cybersecurity industrial park (Changsha) was unveiled in Changsha. This is also the second cybersecurity industry professional park recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology after Beijing. Not long after, Qi'anxin, the "number one cybersecurity company", also settled in Changsha and jointly established Qi'anxingcheng Cybersecurity Technology (Hunan) Co., Ltd. with the Changsha Municipal Government.
"The construction of the National Cyber Security Industrial Park is composed of 'one institute and four centers', with the National University of Defense Technology as the technology source. Kylin Company and Qi'anxin Group will respectively undertake the construction of the Information and Innovation Industry Collaborative Adaptation Center and the Urban Cyber Security Operation Center. Leading companies such as China Electric Interconnect will undertake the construction of the Industrial Internet Security Application Promotion Center and the Cyber Security Testing and Certification Center." said Wang Xin, general manager of Qi'an Xingcheng Cyber Security Technology (Hunan) Co., Ltd.
In Wang Xin's view, the essence of network security is confrontation. Originally, each unit had its own data room and system, forming various information islands. However, the information departments of these units generally had weak prevention and control capabilities against network security threats. "A very small technical department may have only two or three people or four or five people, who have to manage the network, infrastructure, servers, applications, data, and security."
"This technical department itself does not generate any income, but it still costs money. Units at the city level must have at least 1 to 2 level 3 protection systems, and the cost of network security protection is at least 1.5 million to 2 million. Once there are more such units and systems, it will put a lot of pressure on the government finances. Is it possible to build a common network security team in a city and create common network security capabilities to help the city conduct network security prevention and control as a whole? This was the opportunity for the establishment of our center in the first place," said Wang Xin.
"Changsha Model" flocks to the Greater Bay Area construction
On December 31, 2020, Changsha City Cybersecurity Operation Center was officially put into operation. At that time, in terms of cybersecurity space governance, the operation center established three cybersecurity operation centers for government affairs, industry and public facilities, as well as a monitoring command and command and dispatch center; in terms of ecological support, it was proposed to activate the security ecology through the establishment of an industry promotion center, a talent training center, and a security research center through "government, industry, academia and research".
What are the advantages of building a security operation platform that can be used by the entire city? In Wang Xin's view, in the offensive and defensive relationship of network security, defense is to defend the entire "surface", and attack is to break the point. "If you want to defend well with the minimum cost investment, it is obviously better to centralize more and more data." This year is the fourth year of the center's operation. The size of the service objects has gradually expanded from dozens of commissions and bureaus at the beginning to more than 1,200 units such as district and county party committees and bureaus, state-owned enterprises, schools, and hospitals.
"We now have about 100 billion pieces of raw data per week. After machine learning, merging, noise reduction, triage and other links, only about 40,000 pieces are needed when professional operations engineers need manual intervention." Wang Xin said that data security operations are often difficult due to the barriers between the information department and the user department. "They don't know how to solve it. They don't know what the relationship is between the interfaces, data or systems corresponding to these data security issues."
In the wave of digital economy, how can enterprises take advantage of "digitalization"? "The digitalization of enterprises involves design, R&D, production, operation and management. After these links are connected through digital tools, data can provide support for the company's future development. At least to this extent, I think it is called digitalization." Wang Xin suggested that enterprises can take management and sales as the first step in digital transformation.
"For internal corporate management, upstream and downstream supply chain management, and external sales, the cost of digitalizing these links is the lowest and the risk is also the lowest." Wang Xin also reminded that with the deepening of the digital wave, data will become an important asset, and it is crucial to do a good job in data security management. "Nowadays, many companies dare not make digital transformation because they are afraid of losing the core data on which they rely for survival, and they are even unwilling to connect to the Internet."
"Small and medium-sized enterprises may not have the ability to build a complete cybersecurity team on their own, or it is not cost-effective from the perspective of the company's input and output alone, but digitalization has to face the risks of network security or data security. Companies must consider how to solve this problem in advance." Wang Xin noticed that in some places, the government has taken the lead in establishing professional companies to provide specialized products and services for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. This model is also a good solution.
With its operating experience in Changsha, Qi'an Xingcheng is also expanding beyond Changsha. "Guangdong is a large application market. We have some partners who will use my system to serve their customers. Government departments in Guangzhou are also using our platform. In the future, we are also planning to set up branches in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," said Wang Xin.
Business expansion cannot be separated from the addition of professional talents. Wang Xin said that at present, high-quality network security talents are in short supply in China. As government departments and large and small enterprises pay more and more attention to data and information security, network security talents will have broad employment prospects. According to Wang Xin, some of the hundreds of talents in their company come from cooperating universities, and some come from special network security talent training bases. For example, Hunan Network Security Base Technology Co., Ltd. has provided Qi'an Xingcheng with many experienced technicians.
Text | Reporter Xu ZhangchaoPhotos and videos | Reporter Li Zhiwen
