Nederlandse cyberexperts trainen Japanse studenten in Tokio

Kikuo Hayakawa , NOST Tokyo (Innovatie Attaché Netwerk Tokio)

Origineel gepubliceerd op de site van RVO.

Nederlandse cyberexperts trainen Japanse studenten in Tokio

Nederlandse hackers gaven deze week in Tokio een masterclass cybersecurity. De driedaagse training aan Japanse specialisten vond plaats in opdracht van Tokyo University, ‘s lands toonaangevende universiteit, en werd uitgevoerd door experts van Deloitte-NL. Het is een mooi signaal dat Nederlandse kennis en kunde in cybersecurity door dit topinstituut als buitengewoon hoogwaardig wordt geschat. De verwachting is ook dat het niet bij deze masterclass blijft. De samenwerking kwam tot stand op initiatief van het Innovatieattache-netwerk in Tokio en volgt uit het bezoek van Minister Kamp en MP Rutte Japan in november 2015, waarbij een cybersecurity delegatie uit Nederland meereisde. In 2020 organiseert Tokio de Olympische Spelen. Het borgen van Cybersecurity is geidentificeert als een van de belangrijke maatschappelijke uitdagingen.

This first Netherlands-Japan cybersecurity training program in Tokyo was announced on 22 July 2016. (1) The program is called “Deloitte Tohmatsu x the University of Tokyo SiSOC Cyber Security Training”. Its aim is to provide students of the University of Tokyo with an intensive three-day cybersecurity training course by highly-skilled trainers from Deloitte Netherlands. The Japanese sister-organization Deloitte Thomatsu Risk Services Co., Ltd., led by President Mitsuhiko Maruyama, is involved in this program. SiSOC is the cybersecurity initiative of the University of Tokyo, led by Prof. Osamu Sudo, which researches cybersecurity and provides students with cybersecurity masterclasses. (2) Deloitte Netherlands has caught the attention in Japan as a centre-of-excellence in cybersecurity, with its ethical hacker teams victorious at the Global Cyberlympics in the US for the past five years. (3) They were therefore asked to join the SiSOC project as expert-trainers for the hands-on (experience-based learning) program for Tokyo University students. The Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo worked as an enabler, bringing several Dutch centres-of-excellence to the attention of the leadership at University of Tokyo, who eventually decided to select Deloitte-NL, and working out the details with Deloitte’s Japanese cyber branch. At the end of the 3-day training, the two top-ranking students were awarded a study-trip to the Netherlands, where they will visit Deloitte Netherlands and other Dutch cybersecurity organizations (planned for March 2017). The both parties are planning to do the cybersecurity training again next year.

To strengthen collaboration with Japan on cybersecurity issues, Dutch public and private partners signed a consortium agreement with RvO in July 2016, PIB Cybersecurity. (4)