Kikuo Hayakawa , NOST Tokyo (Innovatie Attaché Netwerk Tokio)
Origineel gepubliceerd op de site van RVO.
Onder grote belangstelling van de Japanse vakpers presenteerde het Nederlandse Redsocks zich onlangs in Tokio aan de Japanse ICT wereld. RedSocks Malware Threat Defender, een Nederlandse startup, lanceerde zijn technologie op de Nederlandse Ambassade in Tokio, welkom geheten door Ambassadeur Radinck van Vollenhoven.
RedSocks nam samen met een klein consortium van bedrijven en kennisinstellingen in maart/april 2015 deel aan een cybersecurity delegatie naar Japan, georganiseerd door het Innovatie-attacheenetwerk, de Nederlandse Ambassade en de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland. Tijdens dit bezoek wisten RedSocks en andere deelnemers verschillende Japanse partijen in de private en publieke sector te interesseren voor het verkennen van verdere samenwerking.
Launching event
Dutch cybersecurity company Redsocks B.V. officially launched its product and technology to the Japanese market on 16 July 2015. (1) The event included a ‘sold-out’ press conference, followed by an equally well-attended seminar. Both were hosted by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo.
The occasion marked the first time Redsocks presented its cybersecurity solution, Malware Thread Defender (Redsocks MTD), to the Japanese media and ICT companies. (2) Redsocks is supported on the Japanese market by its distribution partner, Networld Corporation
‘No backdoors’ technology
The Redsocks MTD product is equipped with a function for realtime detection of outbound data traffic which is not intrusive. Redsocks thus assures that there are no – so-called – NSA backdoors.
Japanese media attended in significant numbers and paid special attention to this new function. By the time of writing already over 25 articles about Redsocks MTD had already been published through the Japanese language media. (3)
Support from RvO and Embassy
Redsocks had earlier joined the Dutch cybersecurity delegation to Japan on March 30- April 3 2015, organized by RvO and the Innovation Attachee network at the Royal Netherlands Embassy Tokyo. (4)
Using this opportunity, they successfully created contacts and found possibilities for new cybersecurity activities in Japan. The agreement with the Japanese partner Networld was
inked in The Netherlands shortly after, in May 2015, after which the launching press conference and seminar were successfully organized jointly in Tokyo, as mentioned here.
Follow-up in november 2015
A larger Dutch cybersecurity visit to Japan will be organized by RvO for 7-13 November 2015. (5) Aim is to build on the achievements like that of RedSocks and work towards new collaborations with Japan in the field of cybersecurity. For information please send an email to Kikuo Hayakawa.
Figure 1. Press conference and seminar by Redsocks/Networld
Sources:
1) Networld press release about Redsocks (in Japanese)
2) Redsocks Malware Threat Defender
3) A Redsocks article by a Japanese ICT magazine ASCII (in Japanese)
4) Nederlandse cyber security delegatie bezoekt Japan
5) Dutch cyber security delegaiton to Japan, 7-13 November 2015
