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China renews focus on data security amid heightened geopolitical tension with the West

By Andrew McCollum

Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, using a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, China’s southern Guangdong province.

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Owing to an alarming increase in cybercrimes, China aims to regulate its poorly guarded storehouses of information, with the focus on ‘key information infrastructure’ in fields like finance, energy, communications, and transport. Even industry experts say it is high time that China shored up its data security apparatus.

Zhang Erchi and Qin MinIn the age of digitalization, organizations as varied as hospitals, banks and police departments are accumulating vast amounts of data to find new ways of creating value from information. But these huge stores are often poorly guarded, making them honey pots for hackers.To meet the ever-mounting threats posed by data hacks, cybersecurity has risen to the top of Beijing’s agenda, as seen in the government’s renewed focus on

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