The Government of Yangzhou, a city in China’s eastern Jiangsu province is all set to develop an information security platform which will monitor its online portal as well as major IT systems. As the security implications have become more apparent during this decade, it prompts governments at different levels to invest heavily in upgrading their security systems. The project was undertaken in 2010, where the Government of Jiangsu Province started deploying a security platform in each of the 13 cities in the province including Yangzhou. Digital China, the country’s largest system integrator, has been commissioned to design and implement the project, which would create a monitoring network covering and linking all the municipal governments in the province. The project is considered to be the largest and most intensive regional government information security platform in China, passed the preliminary test in November 2011, seven months ahead of its launch in April 2011. It is deployed to protect 271 e-government portals in the province, guarding them against a variety of information security problems including service disruption, site defacement, Trojan, domain theft and leakage of sensitive information. For information: http://english.gov.cn/