A Dragon Kicked Awake: How China Handles Data Security

As a country with myriad and rapidly increasing volume of Internet and mobile phone users, China is facing the critical challenges on the management of its information assets, and tradeoff between the control, management the Internet and keeping people’s privacy and rights to express themselves online freely. Till the end of June 2009, China has 12.96 million domain name and 338 million subscribers of Internet, and 155million subscribers of mobile phone internet access, and  ranks as No.1 in the world. Internet security has become a key issue while large scale e-business and e-payment growing up based on the Internet in China. Now China has entered into a new era of trustworthy Internet. Much more  research and development efforts on Internet security are encouraged by both scientific and industrial management body of the government through its five-year-plan of national key projects. Through this talk, I will give: (1) an outline of China Internet infrastructure and applications; (2) the challenges of data security and privacy for both the government and the individuals; (3) the great efforts on the policy, legislation and standardization during last two decades ; (4) some case studies regarding to security, privacy and cyber-crime in China; (5) some R&D topics and achievements in China.