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Countermeasures against increasingly sophisticated and complex cyberattacks have become an urgent national issue, and social demands for NICT’s role in cybersecurity are growing. To protect Japan from a wide variety of cyberattacks, the Cybersecurity Research Institute aims to become a global center of excellence in cybersecurity research and development by leveraging NICT’s neutrality and close collaboration with industry and academia. Based on government policy, NICT conducts cybersecurity training programs, promotes cybersecurity measures for IoT devices, and strives to become a nexus in the cybersecurity domain, connecting industry, academia, and government.

NICT is committed to promoting research and development of technologies for the large-scale collection, accumulation, and cross-cutting analysis of data related to cyberattacks. Under the fifth mid-to-long-term plan launched in April 2021, we aim to improve Japan’s cybersecurity response capabilities by advancing these technologies, forming a domestic community of analysts to analyze cybersecurity data, and establishing an open platform to develop a cybersecurity workforce throughout society.

Achieving a secure and safe cyberspace requires technologies that securely utilize data while ensuring both security and privacy. Additionally, there are concerns that the security of current cryptographic technologies will be compromised if large-scale quantum computers are realized. Therefore, we will evaluate the security of new cryptographic technologies for the quantum computing era, such as post-quantum cryptography, as well as the cryptographic technologies currently widely used in electronic government systems.

Director General, Cybersecurity Research Institute
INOUE Daisuke