Closing Keynote:Future Cybersecurity Strategy - Active Cyber Defense, Human Resource Development, and More
DAY 2
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18:25
In Japan, legislation to introduce “active cyber defense” was enacted in May of this year, and the National Cyber Security Office was established in July. Currently, the government is working to establish a system for implementing active cyber defense and to formulate a cybersecurity strategy. This presentation will introduce the Japanese government’s policy trends, including human resource development, and how to promote measures to strengthen cybersecurity and ensure the safety of cyberspace, which will serve as the foundation for supporting society in the future.
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Track 1(HALL B)
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Others
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Speakers
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Kazutaka Nakamizo
中溝 和孝
Deputy Director-General, National Cybersecurity Office (NCO),
Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan
In July 2025, he was appointed Deputy Director General of the NCO, Japan’s cybersecurity authority. He is mainly responsible for developing and promoting cybersecurity policies across the government.
Between 2021 and 2025, he worked for NISC, former cybersecurity authority, where he was responsible for the implementation and coordination of measures mentioned in the Cybersecurity Strategy adopted by the Cabinet in 2021. Before that, he was in charge of ICT-related policy at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, including security for telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, protection of privacy and measures against disinformation on the Internet and standardization policies. Also, from 2012 to 2015, he worked at the Embassy of Japan in the United States as a telecom attaché.He joined Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) in 1993.