http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/japan-holds-first-full-cybersecurity-drill
By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo
Japan Today
March 18, 2014
TOKYO -- Japan held a full-on cyberattack across government departments on
Tuesday in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country
gears up to host the 2020 Olympics.
Japan is following the lead of Britain, which invited ethical hackers to
test its computer systems in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics. In
the event, London parried multiple cyberattacks.
Some 50 cyber-defense specialists gathered at an emergency response center
in Tokyo, with at least three times that many offsite, to defend against a
simulated attack across 21 state ministries and agencies and 10 industry
associations, said Ikuo Misumi, a hacking expert at Japan’s state-run
National Information Security Center.
"It's not that we haven't put effort into cybersecurity, but we are
certainly behind the U.S.," Ichita Yamamoto, the cabinet minister in
charge of IT policy and who is leading the effort to boost cybersecurity,
said in an interview.
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