Industrial internet guidelines in pipeline

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the nation's top industry regulator, will soon roll out a guideline on how to safeguard the cybersecurity of the industrial internet, a frontier where countries around the world are scrambling to establish a beachhead, people familiar with the matter said.

The guideline is part of a broader package of policies the ministry will unveil to further promote the development of the industrial internet, a key way to boost the marriage between cutting-edge digital technologies and the manufacturing sector.

The industrial internet security guideline will outline a classification system of different levels of group companies based on their vulnerability to cyberattacks, people who are involved in drafting the policy said, declining to be named as they are not authorized to speak to the media.