At the World Information Security Conference, Academician Wu Jiangxing of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center (NDSC), delivered a keynote speech titled 'Security Pain Points of New Infrastructure and Highlights of Inherent Security.' Wu Jiangxing stated that current new infrastructure faces at least four inherent security challenges.
First, inevitable security vulnerabilities arising from design flaws in hardware and software;
Second, the unavoidable presence of hardware and software backdoors within the information product ecosystem;
Third, current scientific, technological, and engineering capabilities remain insufficient to comprehensively detect all vulnerabilities and backdoors;
Fourth, there is still no effective method for controlling the security quality of information products. The theory and methodology of mimicry architecture defense can resolve common inherent security issues in information systems and control devices, making it possible to manage security defects in information-technology-related products at their source. Whether in the information domain, industrial control domain, or physical domain, the theoretical frameworks and technical methods of inherent security can endow systems with quantifiable design and verifiable measurement of inherent security functionality. This approach promises to fundamentally reverse the current state of cybersecurity—where compliance-based management exists but lacks supporting technical means—and theoretically and technically demonstrates that openness, security, advancement, trustworthiness, and independent controllability can be unified under the mimicry architecture.
As China’s digital economy rapidly expands and the dual-circulation development strategy takes shape, a reshuffling of next-generation information technologies and industries is underway. Cross-sector collaboration is urgently needed to vigorously develop new information technologies, facilities, and equipment—built upon new infrastructure and incorporating mimicry architecture defense for inherent security—in order to redefine innovation domains both in China and globally, and to establish influential hubs of innovative technology and industry.
Last updated: 2026-03-08