Information and communication technology (ICT) has grown and developed dramatically coming into the 21st century, is penetrating society deeply with a variety of daily, social and economic activities becoming heavily dependent on ICT. Against this background, threats to information security have become increasingly sophisticated and complicated, and is a serious issue in today’s society. A competition throughout the globe is in progress to apply ICT to industry as a whole using IoT (Internet of Things), to increase industrial competitiveness. A key issue will be ensuring IoT security when information is being exchanged between various devices.
Countermeasures have generally been implemented through network operators, due to the majority of security threats being caused by attacks through networks.
However, as the ICT environment becomes more developed and complicated, a wider range of collaboration will become necessary for improvement in the level of countermeasures against information security threats. And so, we have collaborated with a wide variety of corporations and associations involved in ICT, and founded “ICT-ISAC” with the purpose of contributing to the formation of a safe ICT society.
“ICT-ISAC” will operate on a basis of collaborating with business operators from a wide range of fields including ISP, such as telecommunications carriers, broadcasters, software vendors, information providing service operators, and information-related equipment manufacturing operators, in order to ensure network security. A diverse group of operators will share information regarding the collection and analysis of information and countermeasures, and will counter threats as a collaborative and concerted organization, transcending the boundaries of the industry. It is our sincere desire that “ICT-ISAC” will enhance the safe ICT environment by standing up against the ever-changing threats to information security, and by doing so, contribute to the further development of an advanced ICT society in Japan.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those involved for your continued support, loyal patronage and guidance.
Tadao SAITO
President of ICT-ISAC Japan
June 21, 2016
| Organization Name | ICT-ISAC Japan |
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| Establishment | Mar 9, 2016 |
| Address | Sakura Building 8F, 2-5-5 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, JAPAN |
| President | Tadao SAITO (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) |
| Executive Board Members | Katsuhiko KAWAZOE (NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION) |
| Takashi TANAKA (KDDI CORPORATION) | |
| Auditor | Nozomi SUMIDA (FUJITSU LIMITED) |
| Executive Adviser | Hisao IIZUKA |
| Koji NAKAO | |
| Observers | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Telecommunications Services Association Telecommunications Carriers Association Japan Internet Providers Association Japan Data Communications Association THE JAPAN COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association |
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| History | June, 2002 The preparatory committee for establishment of “Information Sharing and Analysis Center” for telecommunication carriers was set up. July, 2002 “Telecom Information Sharing and Analysis Center”(Telecom-ISAC Japan) was launched by seven internet service providers as its first members. March, 2016 ICT-ISAC Japan was established. July, 2016 ICT-ISAC Japan started real activities by succeeding activities and operations of Telecom-ISAC Japan. |
| Established | July 2005 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications |
| Activities | Sharing of routing information among ISPs, rapid response at the time of abnormal routing information, and operation of 'Keiro-Bugyo (route magistrate) System' |
| Established | April 2007 |
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| Responsible company | FUJITSU |
| Activities | Information exchange for operational quality improvement of internet access network service, sharing of best practices, and exchange of ideas with experts |
| Established | December 2007 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications Sony Network Communications Rakuten Mobile |
| Activities | Information sharing related to tackling fraud/illegal activities abusing network, and development of framework to suppress the expansion of the incident |
| Established | May 2009 |
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| Responsible company | FUJITSU |
| Activities | Planning and carrying out of defense exercises assuming the outbreak of cyber attacks |
| Established | October 2011 |
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| Responsible company | Internet Initiative Japan |
| Activities | Realization of rapid and appropriate response to DoS attacks, by consideration of rapid response to DoS attacks, useful mechanisms of cooperative actions among multiple operators and prediction and early detection of domestic DoS attacks |
| Established | December 2013 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications |
| Activities | Discussions and examinations on response to the cyber-attacks, and formulation of guidelines pertaining to secrecy of communication |
| Established | October 2016 |
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| Responsible company | TOKYO BROADCASTING SYSTEM TELEVISION |
| Activities | Execution of activities in accordance with the times, aiming promotion of improving the level of security resistance of all the broadcasting organizations for them to respond appropriately to cyber-attacks changing day by day |
| Established | August 2016 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications |
| Activities | Promotion of IoT security reinforcement, through activities such as understanding of the actual situation of vulnerable IoT devices through architecture consideration and system construction, investigation and considering of countermeasures, collaboration with other WGs of ICT-ISAC (including reorganization of the secrecy of communications), cooperation with governmental measures, sharing of information such as release of periodical reports, and consideration of enlightenment activities for improvement of awareness of IoT security |
| Established | November 2016 |
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| Responsible company | Hitachi |
| Activities | Promotion of cooperation regarding the sharing of information such as international cooperation and cooperation between ISACs, consideration of the utilization of information within ICT-ISAC |
| Established | September 2018 |
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| Responsible company | KDDI |
| Activities | Promotion of operation as the certified association stipulated in the Telecommunications Business ACT, support for execution of works to call attention to ISPs for NOTICE (National Operation Towards IoT Clean Environment) operation to be proceeded smoothly, and promotion of considering improvement measures for the attention calling works |
| Established | March 2019 |
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| Responsible company | NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE |
| Activities | With ICT-ISAC's participation as a member of the Cybersecurity Council established by NISC, promotion of information sharing with the council and among ICT-ISAC members |
| Established | April 2019 |
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| Responsible company | KDDI Research |
| Activities | By establishing a network for cooperation with reliable organizations in and out of Japan, making of a contribution to ICT-ISAC activities through continuous collaborative activities with them |
| Established | October 2022 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications |
| Activities | Sharing information on threats to internal IT systems and cybersecurity issues related to IT use |
| Established | November 2022 |
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| Responsible company | NTT Communications |
| Activities | Consideration of sharing and utilization of C2 server list among telecommunications carriers |
| Established | April 2023 |
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| Activities | Providing members with a place to gather information on advanced technologies that are expected to be put to practical use in the next 5 to 10 years |
| Established | June 2008 |
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| Facilitator | NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE |
| Activities | Maintenance of effectiveness of information sharing and contact systems between DNS operators, within the range of face-to-face relationships |
| Established | July 2018 |
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| Facilitator | Japan Broadcasting Corporation |
| Activities | To prevent younger generation from leaving Cyber Security untouched, clarification of the meaning of joining ICT-ISAC activities to them, and improvement of the environment for their joining |
| Established | January 2019 |
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| Activities | Sharing of information among participant ISPs to promote NOTICE (National Operation Towards IoT Clean Environment) operation |
| Established | June 2020 |
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| Facilitator | Hitachi |
| Activities | In regard to security incident risks of the vulnerability of IoT devices being left unmeasured, consideration on how to execute calling attention to corporate users |
| Established | December 2021 |
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| Facilitator | Softbank |
| Activities | Constructing proper mechanism to visualize industry-wide operation status, and systematization of information sharing with GUI dashboard, based on status information, such as failure occurrence, publicized for contractors |
| Established | March 2023 |
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| Facilitator | NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE EAST |
| Activities | Information sharing to respond to various cyber-attacks during the term of the G7 Summit and related Ministerial Meetings held in Japan in 2023 |
Sakura Building 8F, 2-5-5 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001
(2-minute walk from Exit 2a of Toranomon Sta.[G07], Tokyo Metro Ginza Line; 2-minute walk from Exit A2(A2a) of Toranomon Hills Sta.[H06], Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line)