Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office of Japan visits CTED

BMUSONI — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:18:00 +0000

On 21 April 2017, the Head of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) received a courtesy visit from a Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office of Japan. Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director Mr. Jean-Paul Laborde of CTED met Mr. William Hiroyuki Saito, who advises the Japanese Government on cyber security issues.

In their meeting, Mr. Saito announced that Japan plans to host the Cyber4 Conference in Tokyo in October 2017, which Mr. Laborde welcomed. The Executive Director outlined CTED plans to develop guidelines to be further promoted and implemented by the entire Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sector. CTED is already promoting self-regulation by Internet service providers and the active networking of counter-terrorism prosecutors to facilitate the processing of digital evidence in an expeditious fashion.

They both agreed on the need for the Government of Japan to play a more important and active role in this area, including in preventing cyberattacks by terrorists.

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Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office of Japan visits CTED