Current Status and Issues of CSIRTs in Japan

Abstract

In recent years the information security has become one of the critically important issues for any organizations which have utilized the informational infrastructures according to the progress of an information-oriented society. Under such a background, in Japan, the number of organizations which have constructed a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is gradually increasing.
This session aims to report the current status and issues of CSIRTs in Japan and discuss the future directions of the CSIRT research. While a lot of existing researches on the information security have focused on its technical aspect, CSIRT researches attempt to focus on, if anything, its organizational aspect. To achieve the goal of this session we approach the organizational issues of CSIRTs in Japan.