Prime Minister Takaichi says active defense will be ``strategically implemented'' due to unauthorized access, emergency measures to be taken next week

On the 26th, the government held the first meeting of the relevant ministerial meeting on cybersecurity at the Prime Minister's Office. In response to the frequent leaks of large amounts of personal information due to unauthorized access to companies, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has emphasized that ``we will strategically select and implement all response options, including access and detoxification measures.'' The government has indicated that it will respond by considering the use of ``active cyber defense'' to prevent serious cyber attacks.

The prime minister also announced his intention to compile an emergency measures package by the end of next week. ``I want you to consider and make adjustments, including fiscal measures, as soon as possible.''

The prime minister ordered the strengthening of consultation and support systems for victim companies, thorough information gathering and dissemination centered on the National Cyber ​​Control Office (NCO), and cooperation with allies and like-minded countries. He called for the government to bring forward the use of high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) to check the vulnerability of government systems.

The meeting was chaired by Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, and attended by Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, and Cyber ​​Security Minister Shunji Furukawa.

The government began operating ``active cyber defense'' this month. If the police or Self-Defense Forces detect signs of an attack on core infrastructure providers such as communications, finance, or electricity, they will infiltrate the attacker's server and render it harmless. GMO Internet, which suffered an attack on the server it rents for automated trading of foreign exchange margin trading (FX), requested the government to apply active defense.