Over the past years, we've witnessed more and more information security incidents that brought an entire enterprise to a halt. As such, the often overlooked aspect of information security triad -- Availability, is put back into focus again.

This year's HITCON Pacific "Transforming: Cybersecurity and Resilience", aims to help both government and enterprise in ensuring that no more costly downtimes are caused by information security problems.

HITCON Pacific 2017's theme is Cyber Force Awakens. We will call on governments, businesses, and citizens to take the initiative in digital assets and to build a cyber power and an information security industry ecosystem. In addition, domestic and foreign experts are invited to discuss the threats and defenses of "digital homeland" from the aspects of capital security technology, policies and regulations, so as to bring the latest international views on capital security and countermeasures to the audience.

We are honored to win the approval of DEFCON again this year to hold the HITCON CTF international level information security competition, and the world's top players will fight for the qualification of DEFCON CTF seeded team.

HITCON Pacific 2016 takes The Fifth Domain: Cyber | Homeland Security as The topic to discuss The Fifth area of attention: threats and defensive countermeasures on The Internet. We invite top experts from South Korea, Israel and Japan to generously share their information security development history and attack response strategies to upgrade information security issues to national security level.

More than 30 top experts participated in this conference, and we also held the HITCON CTF world-class information security competition which was certified by DEFCON. All the world's top players will fight for the qualification of DEFCON CTF seeded team.

HITCON Enterprise is the biggest event for the information security community in Taiwan in 2015 and has attracted international attention. HITCON for the first time cooperated with the government and various enterprises to share information security defense countermeasures. We hope to use this seminar to remind countries and enterprises to construct an information security environment in a serious manner and cultivate information security talents to cope with the unpredictable challenges ahead.

HITCON has been growing and thriving for a decade, shining brightly in the information security community, which made the chief organizer decide to do something different on the 10th anniversary! For the first time, we invite domestic information security vendors to share information security strategies and trends with system integrators and leading information security experts from around the world. We also held an exchange party. All the guests gathered here to learn from each other and improve their possibilities.