The government on Friday published an emergency package of cybersecurity measures after a run of large-scale data leaks, including the creation of a public-private cyber rescue team to assist organizations under attack.
The unit, tentatively named the Public-Private Cyber Rescue Team, will draw on specialists from both sectors and be dispatched to companies and organizations judged to need it most. The government said it aims to keep the impact on people's daily lives to a minimum through public-private cooperation.
The package also calls for strengthening the framework for active cyber defense — operations in which police and the Self-Defense Forces penetrate an attacker's servers to stop its programs — and for quickly sorting out and studying the legal status of blocking, the forced切断 of connections to specific sites.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi instructed ministers at a meeting on cybersecurity on Friday to consider amending laws related to active cyber defense, in order to strengthen the government's ability to gather information on attacks.
Package follows repeated breaches
The measures were compiled at the ministerial meeting. Takaichi ordered the package put together on October 26, after a series of unauthorized access incidents and data leaks caused major disruption to corporate activity and other areas.
The published portion of the package says that in many of the data leaks disclosed so far, already … The remainder of the article, which runs to 1,082 characters, is behind a paywall.