A great article from the Japan Times highlighting the challenges that Japan faces with cybersecurity.

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A great article from the Japan Times highlighting the challenges that Japan faces with cybersecurity. Especially the cultural challenges of an aging population and poor levels of cyber knowledge of its leaders, the challenges that Japanese organizations face with technology and cybersecurity adoption, and the challenges associated with retraining an aged workforce.

€œThe old economy needs to figure out ways to make the IT team ultimately more powerful than senior management,€ Ziegler said. €œIt’s going to be a huge cultural problem because senior management is usually old and senior and IT people are usually young.€

Recent cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in Japan have highlighted the vulnerabilities industry faces. But they are not alone as the increase in cyber attacks in the U.S and EU demonstrate similar challenges with cyber maturity and the effects of ransomware.

One does disagree on the catastrophe, as it all depends on how one defines catastrophe. One suspects the board of Nagoya port did not feel very comfortable during their cyber incident.

Ted Dziekanowski

#cybersecurity #cyberriskmanagement #japan

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