Japan's Parliament has enacted legislation to boost the number of specialists with skills to combat cyber attacks in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Under the revised cyber security legislation, a new national qualification for those who “support work to ensure security in information processing” will be set up, with the government announcing plans for a qualification exam to come on stream by 2017. The government said it hoped that more than 30,000 specialists will have passed the exam by 2020.
The move comes amid rapidly growing cyber attacks in Japan. A record 54.51 billion such attacks were detected in the country in 2015, double the number from the previous year, according to a survey by a government-backed institute.
The legislation will also widen the scope of entities subject to vulnerability checks, following a massive leak of personal data from the Japan Pension Service in 2015.
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