Takahashi Kosuke
As previously reported by The Diplomat, Japan is lagging behind other major countries in cyber defense capabilities to deal with cyberattacks. Currently, only passive cyber defense, such as detecting network intrusions, is possible.
The Japanese government decided to introduce active cyber defense in the new National Security Strategy, released in December 2022, in order to catch up on the delay in cyber defense efforts. Japan recognizes the need to counter cyberattacks targeting important infrastructure such as government organizations and nuclear power plants.
But the government’s efforts are still proceeding at a snail’s pace.
“Japan’s cyber defense has been ridiculed by the world because we haven’t done anything,” Kanehara Nobukatsu, a former assistant chief Cabinet secretary and deputy director general of the National Security Secretariat under the second Abe Shinzo administration in the 2010s, said on a BS Fuji television program on May 23.
“Many in North Korea, Russia, and China are hunting for vast amounts of data in Japanese cyberspace. Who will go and catch them? No one has done so in Japan. Japan is the only country that has been slacking on cybersecurity for 20 years,” Kanehara cautioned.
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