NEC to Provide Cyber-Attack Defense Training for Six ASEAN Countries

NEC to Provide
Cyber-Attack Defense Training for Six ASEAN Countries

Tokyo, February
17, 2017 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE:
6701) today announced that it received an order from the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) to provided cyber-attack defense for officials from
governmental institutions responsible for cyber security in six members of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam). The first round of the training is
scheduled from February 20 to March 3, 2017.

Damage due to
cyber-attacks has recently been spreading globally. Given the increasingly
serious damage attributable to such targeted attacks on governmental
organizations and critical infrastructure, there is a growing necessity to take
measures to improve cyber security capabilities.

This defense
training, which will take place in Japan over a three year period, aims to
improve incident response, including the early discovery and detection of
damage, as well as the implementation of countermeasures to targeted
cyber-attacks on ASEAN countries. Training sessions feature lectures on the
latest threats  and security measures, as well as drills similar to the
Cyber Defense Exercise with Recurrence (CYDER), which are practical
cyber-attack defense drills that have been conducted by the Ministry of
Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan since 2013.

These drills will
be carried out in environments that simulate targeted attacks on governmental
organizations. This provides opportunities for learning how to address
cyber-attacks through actual experience with a series of incident-handling
processes, such as the discovery and reporting of incidents, the
identification, isolation, and analysis of problematic areas, and the
confirmation of damage. In addition, opportunities will be provided to tour
leading-edge cyber security-related facilities in Japan according to the tour
programs of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
(NICT) and the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).

“JICA is proud to
be contributing to this collaboration between Japan and ASEAN countries in the
reinforcement of cyber security,” said Mr. Juichiro Sasaki, Director General,
JICA Tokyo International Center. “We look forward to sharing the latest
technology and security information through state-of-the-art practices
implemented in this ‘Knowledge Co-Creation Program’ in Japan.”

“The improvement of
cyber security plays an important role in NEC’s provision of ‘Solutions for
Society,’” said Mr. Kazuhiko Shiraishi, General Manager, National Security
Solutions Division, NEC Corporation. “Going forward, we will continue these
efforts by providing drills, products and services for cyber defense to a large
number of organizations, including governmental institutions and critical
infrastructure providers, both in Japan and internationally.”