| Article 3 |
The terms under the Act are defined as follows:<br/>1. Information and communication system: That refers to the system to be used to collect, control, transmit, store, circulate, delete information or to make other processing, using and sharing of such information.<br/>2. Information and communication service: That refers to the service to be used to collect, control, transmit, store, circulate, delete information or to make other processing, using and sharing of such information.<br/>3. Cyber security: That refers to such effort to prevent information and communication system or information from being unauthorized access, use, control, disclosure, damage, alteration, destruction or other infringement to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and system.<br/>4. Cyber security incident: That refers to an event where the state of a system, service, or network is identified as having a potential violation of the cyber security policy or a failure of protective measures, which affects the functionality of the information and communication system and constitutes a threat against the cyber security policy.<br/>5. Government agency: That refers to central, local government agency（institution）or public juristic person that exercises public power according to law, excluding military and intelligence agency.<br/>6. Specific non-government agency: That refers to critical infrastructure provider, government-owned enterprises and government-endowed foundation.<br/>7. Critical infrastructure: That refers to physical or virtual assets, systems or networks, the functions of which, once ceased to operate or their performance is reduced, may have a significant impact on national security, social and public interests, people's lives, or economic activities, and which are subject to regular inspection and announcement by the competent authorities.<br/>8. Critical infrastructure provider: That refers to the ones who maintain or provide critical infrastructure either in whole or in part, as designated by the central authority in charge of relevant industry, which shall be submitted to the competent authority for ratification.<br/>9. Government-endowed foundation: That refers to a foundation of which the operation and capital utilization plan of its funds shall be submitted to the Legislative Yuan in accordance with Paragraph 3 of Article 41 of the Budget Act and its annual budget statement shall be submitted to the Legislative Yuan for deliberation in accordance with Paragraph 4 of the same Article. |
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