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Information Security Measures under Pressure of Revision

What on earth is happening? Is Japan taking information security measures seriously?” This year, one after another of the networks of public organizations and corporations, including major heavy industries, have been at the receiving end of cyber attacks, resulting in disclosure of important information in some instances. The damage is gradually becoming clear as the investigations move forward, but in most cases, we cannot expect to understand the full particulars. In many of the attacks, the attackers penetrated protected computers that were only accessible to a limited number of people at the companies to steal information. A great variety of information was targeted including personal information, military technologies, nuclear power technologies, chemical technologies, and information about affairs of the state.

In this article, we explain why these situations occur and why we cannot prevent attacks, and we also discuss new measures to counter these kinds of attacks.