This research investigated and explored the degree of specialized perception on data security, concentrating on Third-Party Security jeopardy factors, data integrity risks, and application security safeguard to have an insight about the competent authority, bank firms, and FinTech pioneers' degree of information concerning the Taiwan Cyber Security Industry Development Action Plan. Data were analyzed derived via professor and researcher semi-structured with open-ended format interviews, and data were analyzed according to Creswell's (2013) Data Analysis Spiral method.
Findings suggest that financial institutions and new FinTech institutions align as much as possible to meet the objectives of the Taiwan National Cyber Security Program geared towards enhancing cybersecurity protection and communications network response measures to enhance the resilience and security of the national baseline network.
The research concludes with a discussion of the study's limitations, a caveat emptor against generalizing its findings, and general implications FinTech companies or authorities ought to consider improving and foster better guidelines and security practices to line up with the Taiwan Cyber Security Industry Development Action Plan.

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