Japan lags in cyber capabilities: British think tank report

scintillating stuff these thinktank experts come up with.... wonder how on earth they worked it out. maybe they get faxed updates form Japan once in a while?

This is extremely important.

Someone should fax the J-gov and let them know about this.

Cyber-security minister Yoshitaka Sakurada will soon be sending them an angry email. Oh wait. No he won’t. He doesn’t know how to use a computer.

Not only Japan as the government/JSDF lags in cyber capabilities, even the private sector does. Banks, small companies, even big companies like Toyota. The management here believes that IT is just development and coding. But anyone can write code. Absolutely anyone can write bad code to make it work. Practically today you can just youtube, fork github, etc. You know what I mean. But IT as in terms of HW, security, propper networking, pen testing, etc? It is virtually non-existent here. Recurring IT security audits? Why waste money.. Many people in leadership roles believe that investing in something that is not visible and shows no visible results is unnecessary. Until recently, one major car manufacturer had no strategy for what to do in the event of an IT attack or infection of an entire network. When we gave them our report, they said they knew what it would mean, but that there was no procedure for it and they didn't need one yet because nothing like this had happened to them. I'm not kidding. They didn't understand why they should invest money in repeated IT security audits when "all we did was sit at a PC".

Yeah, it is better to have a 80 year old oyaji as the boss....

Japan lags in cyber capabilities: British think tank report

No need a think tank, just check news from Japan.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/japans-minister-of-cybersecurity-admits-hes-never-used-a-computer.html

Already got itself new scandal

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/11/national/tokyo-olympics-minister-coercion-nec/

Nice to hear such criticism from a corner where they still print classified information on paper and leave it unattended at a bus stop. ROFL

NO!!! You don't say!!!! What a shocking finding!!! I am dumbfounded!!! For such a hi-tech country where everything is only the best of everything!!! And the amount of money that the government is pouring in to cyber security is astonishing!!!

Sven AsaiToday 04:30 pm JST

Nice to hear such criticism from a corner where they still print classified information on paper and leave it unattended at a bus stop. ROFL

Clearly a very deliberate and public leak orchestrated by MI5/MI6.

Clearly a very deliberate and public leak orchestrated by MI5/MI6.

Yes, that’s also a valid interpretation. Especially for the poor guy who forgot it there. lol

Faxes are scary. They creak in the middle of the night.

a corner where they still print classified information on paper and leave it unattended at a bus stop.

Apparently Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded with the following:

"And now a riddle-like question for the British parliament, why do we need ‘Russian hackers’ if there are British bus stops?” 

The dilemma is, if it was really cleverly orchestrated , then such clever people could also apply certain drops of liquids with a Russian name on a door knob or a sedated flying dissident, you know… Let’s better keep the story so, that a moron forgot the classified papers because it was very hot at the bus stop and when the bus came in he was just busy wiping away sweat with a towel in the hand….lol

Lags behind in cyber space as well?!

There's nothing easier to hack than a fax.

Get 2 needles a cheap modem and a fax client software.

Anybody following the news would reach the same conclussion easily, no need for specialists.

behind second-tier countries China, France, Israel, Russia and Britain.

Russia and China are second-tier?

Who does this org consider first-tier?

Russia and China are second-tier?

Who does this org consider first-tier?

The article is pretty squishy. Here is a rating with metrics and the results are very different. Interestingly China comes in third least cyber secure country in the world !

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/cybersecurity-by-country/

Here is another cyber security rating that puts the US, China, Russia, UK, much of the EU and Japan in the highest category for cyber security.

https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/countries-dedicated-to-cybersecurity

Oooh, show some data and get down votes. What a crowd.

Oooh, show some data and get down votes. What a crowd.

Waddya gonna do? People are idiots.