The whole country is being threatened by cyberattacks. The National Police Agency will set up a cybersecurity bureau and a cybersecurity squad next year to fully tackle this issue.

Let me guess, a huge lot of taxpayer money will be dedicated to fund this bureau and squad, but it will be mostly spent by outsourcing all necessary systems to some big corporation that will botch the whole thing as it had happened repeatedly with many other government projects. In 5 years or so the news will be that no results were produced and the money paid to those companies lost.

Let me guess, a huge lot of taxpayer money will be dedicated to fund this bureau and squad, but it will be mostly spent by outsourcing all necessary systems to some big corporation

Of course. Do you think the government, not having the knowledge of cyber security, should be doing it in-house?! That's crazy talk.

StrangerlandToday  08:26 am JST

Let me guess, a huge lot of taxpayer money will be dedicated to fund this bureau and squad, but it will be mostly spent by outsourcing all necessary systems to some big corporation

Of course. Do you think the government, not having the knowledge of cyber security should be doing it in-house?! That's crazy talk.

Knowledge of cyber security?!?!?

The National and local police barely have the knowledge to be able to turn on a Desktop PC.

Every time I need to make a change request to my antiquarian license, as about an item being offered to me that I think may be stolen, etc....

Instead of going online, or at least being able to go into the police station and search the stolen items database.

I have to fill in papers lots and lost of papers, the police have to manually search through the stolen items print out.

The paperwork involved just to change my address on my driver's license 2 years ago was a joke.

I don't think cyber attacks are even on the police or government radar as their systems are so old and useless that they wouldn't even notice if one happened.

It is the private industry that is really having a problem and the police have no clue how to proceed.

The National Police Agency will set up a cybersecurity bureau and a cybersecurity squad next year to fully tackle this issue.

Brave Blossoms. Bless!

Perhaps LDP Yoshitaka Sakurada will be given a second chance to oversee this bureau?

A few years ago, I offered the local police a drive-recorder video of a head-on collision that I witnessed.

They did not know how to copy the video from a USB memory stick to their desktop! I did it for them!

All the tools people need to protect themselves are available commercially, and may already be on their systems, supplied by OS providers.

The state has little part to play other than requesting other nations take down hackers and any IPs used in scams.

The worst attacks corporates can suffer from are DDoS attacks (for which solutions like Cloudflare are available) and ransomware attacks (train your staff, lock down your servers properly and utilise system alerts to detect dubious traffic). If you don't have the staff, use a reliable hosting service.

If politicians want to spend some money, spend it on teachers, not police officers, teaching kids how important cybersecurity is.