360 Selected to Build a National New‑Generation AI Open Innovation Platform for a Security Brain

On August 29, 2019, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) was held in Shanghai, where the Ministry of Science and Technology announced ten "National New‑Generation Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platforms," designating 360 to build the Security Brain platform.

360 is the only cybersecurity company selected, signifying its emergence as a leading enterprise in AI security and a driving force for the industry.

The Ministry issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of National New‑Generation AI Open Innovation Platforms," emphasizing that leading AI technology companies should head the platforms, encouraging collaboration with research institutes and universities for technical support.

The guidelines state that platforms should follow principles of application‑driven development, enterprise leadership, market‑oriented mechanisms, and collaborative innovation, and must meet four basic conditions: strong technical capability and industry impact, open‑shared service infrastructure, sustained investment in funding, talent and facilities, and clear, assessable service operation mechanisms.

Four key tasks focus on targeted technology innovation, promoting result diffusion and application, providing open‑shared services, and guiding SMEs and developers toward innovation and entrepreneurship.

360’s Security Brain is a distributed intelligent security system integrating security experts, massive multidimensional security big data, threat intelligence, strategic resource libraries, and knowledge bases, leveraging IoT, mobile communications, AI, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, edge computing, and network security technologies to shift from isolated defense to coordinated, intelligent national cyber‑defense.

At the recent 7th Internet Security Conference, 360 Chairman and CEO Zhou Hongyi warned that future cyber‑warfare will become the primary arena for geopolitical competition, with virtual attacks causing physical damage.

Looking ahead, 360 plans to help government and enterprise customers build their own security brains and big‑data analysis platforms, deliver threat intelligence and knowledge bases, upgrade security capabilities of hardware and software, and provide comprehensive services including team building and practical offensive‑defensive training to enhance overall security posture.