Initial Disclosure Date: Feb 25, 2013

Mr. Tadashi Onodera, KDDI President and Chairman, submitted a proposal to the council and requested to hold meetings on a regular basis in order to keep the public, private, and academic sectors informed about ever-changing cyber threats. He also suggested the government notify citizens of what kind of cybersecurity-related educational opportunities are available rather than focusing on stovepipe efforts to train in-house people. He pointed out that further deregulation and new guidelines are indispensable to create a new industry to take advantage of cloud computing and big data and to stimulate the economy.

The Information Security Policy Council held the first meeting under the second Abe administration on February 22, chaired by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. He stated that Prime Minister Abe had ordered him to craft a new strategy to replace the Information Security Strategy for Protecting the Nation by summer of 2013. Participants agreed to make an outline of the strategy by the end of this May. ^{(footnote:ⅰ)} The current strategy will expire in the end of March2014. Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1 and ends on March 31.

Participants also discussed how to enhance the capability to counter cyber-attacks and update what had been done during Information Security Awareness Month (February). The meeting adopted a guideline to set safety standard for critical infrastructures’ information security (third edition), which was revised after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.

Mr. Tadashi Onodera, KDDI President and Chairman, submitted a proposal to the council and requested to hold meetings on a regular basis in order to keep the public, private, and academic sectors informed about ever-changing cyber threats. He also suggested each ministry and agency should work together to notify citizens of what kind of cybersecurity-related educational opportunities are available. He pointed out that further deregulation and new guidelines and legislation are indispensable to create a new industry to take advantage of cloud computing and big data.

Sources:

1. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, “Saiba kogeki, konka ni shin senryaku sakutei he seihu ga seisaku kaigi [The government held a meeting of Information Security Policy Council and decided to craft a new strategy to counter cyber-attacks this summer],” February 22, 2013,
   http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFS22030_S3A220C1PP8000/

• National Information Security Center, “hodo shiryo: joho sekyuriti seisaku kaigi dai 32 kai kaigo no kaisai nit suite [Press Release: the 32nd meeting of the Information Security Policy Council],” February 22, 2013,
  http://www.nisc.go.jp/conference/seisaku/dai32/pdf/32seisakupress.pdf
• Tadashi Onodera, KDDI President and Chairman, “Joho sekyuriti seisaku kaigi heno komento [Comment on the Information Security Policy Council],” February 22, 2013,
  http://www.nisc.go.jp/conference/seisaku/dai32/pdf/32shiryou0700.pdf

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