With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones and terminals, as mobile shopping, mobile payment, mobile office, mobile entertainment popularity with people of all relevant information processing services, people can access the mobile Internet. Through the Internet, information and business networking and other interactive online and offline, the formation of " information flow, capital flow, logistics flow and people flow" and many other streams -one situation, to break the traditional patterns of behavior , providing people with a convenient and more user-friendly service.

Development of Internet and information technology brings the convenience to people, but also a lot of new issues, a variety of online criminal behaviors (network rumors, hackers, online fraud, disclosure of personal privacy, theft and other kinds of Internet account). So information security is imminent, must be resolved.

To solve the problem of Internet security, the priority is to solve the problem of authentication in the Internet. Peking University Research Institute of Technology, Hangzhou and Suzhou Hierstar both recognize the importance of identity and security, respond to national security strategic planning and construction needs, will combine together, co-found of "the Cloud identity security Institute", aiming for the national information security, smart city construction and financial security contributions. Given Dr. Xie Taoling’s academic status in the field of information security, cloud identity security, he was appointed and nominated as director of the Institute of Peking University.