Google opens new cybersecurity hub for Asia Pacific in Tokyo
On Thursday, March 7, 2024 (local time), technology giant Google announced the opening of a new cybersecurity hub in Tokyo, Japan, amid increasing digital security threats in the Asia-Pacific region.
Google opens Asia-Pacific cybersecurity research center in Tokyo - The Japan Times
Google opens first Asia-Pacific cyberdefense hub in Japan
https://qz.com/google-cyberdefense-hub-tokyo-japan-1851315101
google cyberdefence hub tokyo: Google opens new cyberdefence hub in Tokyo amid China threats - The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-opens-new-cyberdefence-hub-in-tokyo-amid-china-threats/articleshow/108299045.cms
Google opens cyberdefense hub in Tokyo - Nikkei Asia
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Google-opens-cyberdefense-hub-in-Tokyo
On March 7, 2024 local time, Google announced that it has opened a new cybersecurity base in Tokyo, the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Google explains that the Cyber Security Center of Excellence aims to lead research and train technical talent to counter the threat of cyber attacks.
Google told Agence France-Presse (AFP): 'We are officially opening a cybersecurity center of excellence in Japan, with the aim of bringing together leading security experts, researchers and partners.' .
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Cyber Security Center of Excellence plans to invite technical experts from India, Australia, South Korea, and other countries to jointly research countermeasures against cyber attacks. This is the first time that Google has opened this type of cybersecurity base in Asia.
In October 2023, Michaela Browning, Google's vice president of government affairs and public policy for the Asia-Pacific region, warned that the Asia-Pacific region 'is under more cyberattacks than any other region.' They cited a ``chronic shortage of human resources'' as part of the reason. In December 2023, Japan's National Security Agency Deputy Director-General and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Keiichi Ichikawa and the United States' Deputy National Security Advisor Ann Neuberger attended the 3rd Japan-U.S. Conference held in Tokyo. I attended a face-to-face meeting of the Australia-India Senior Cyber Group and expressed serious concerns about cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific.
Additionally, in 2023, the container terminal at Nagoya Port was attacked by ransomware, and the Cabinet Cyber Security Center, an information security organization within Japan's Cabinet Secretariat, suffered a cyberattack on its email system.
Container terminal at Nagoya Port recovers for the first time in two days after suspension of operations due to ransomware attack, the first time in Japan that the operation of a port facility has stopped due to a cyber attack - GIGAZINE
In addition, in September 2023, the Japanese National Police Agency, along with the US National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), announced that they would issued a joint alert regarding cyber-attacks by
Cyber attack by BlackTech, a cyber attack group based in China | National Police Agency website
https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/cyber/koho/caution/caution20230927.html
Junichiro Uchiyama, interim director of the Cyber Security Center of Excellence, said, ``We aim to strengthen Japan's cybersecurity infrastructure.''
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