Improving Cyber Defense Assistance to Meet the Challenges in Taiwan

Taiwan faces one of the world’s most intense and persistent cyber threat environments, with over 2.4 million daily cyberattack attempts in 2024—many attributed to Chinese state-backed actors seeking not only to disrupt systems but to erode public trust and test allied resilience. As tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, strengthening Taiwan’s digital defenses has become an urgent strategic priority. The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC)—a coalition of leading private-sector cybersecurity and technology firms formed in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine—has developed an operational model of cyber defense assistance (CDA) that combines intelligence sharing, incident response, training, and resilience-building.

This project will examine how CDAC’s experience in Ukraine can inform a Taiwan-specific CDA framework, identifying both the transferable lessons and the unique challenges of the Taiwan context. The project aims to help CDAC and its partners build a scalable, data-informed model of cyber defense cooperation that enhances Taiwan’s resilience while strengthening allied preparedness across the Indo-Pacific region.