"IoT" is a technology that connects all kinds of equipment and products to the net, while it is expected that effects such as increasing the productivity of factories and developing innovative services for consumers It is concerned that the damage of the cyber attack will reach a wide range.

Under these circumstances, "Hitachi, Ltd.," a major electronics manufacturer suffering from the damage caused by the global scale cyber attack in May this year, the system inside the company could not be used, We decided to set up an organization next month.

The newly created "Information Security Risk Management Headquarters" will monitor cyber attacks against all facilities and products of more than 800 group companies on a 24-hour basis and consider measures to stop the damage.

Meanwhile, efforts to strengthen human resource development are also expanding, and Fujitsu plans to increase system engineers familiar with cyber attacks to more than four times 10,000 people by the year 2019.

NEC plans to increase the number of security related technicians by 12% to 2000 by the next fiscal year, and strengthens preparation for cyber attacks for its own company and customer company as IoT spreads The movement is expanding.