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Japan Holds First Broad Cybersecurity Drill


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Credit: World Bulletin

Japan faced a full-on cyber attack across government departments on Tuesday (March 18) in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country gears up to host the 2020 Olympics.

Some 50 cyber defense specialists gathered at an emergency response centere in Tokyo, with at least three times that many offsite, to defend against a simulated attack across 21 state ministries and agencies and 10 industry associations, said Ikuo Misumi, a hacking expert at Japan's state-run National Information Security Centre.

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