Cybersecurity: Preparing the Workforce

This two-day conference jointly hosted by Keio University and Sasakawa USA explored the human talent component of Cybersecurity, focusing on education, training, and use cases of InterNational Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE), while discussing exciting innovative technology and policy. The plenary sessions provided the audience an opportunity to hear from respected governmental, industry, and academic sector leaders on issues such as nation-state collaboration, the key elements of a corporate cybersecurity practice, and the role that former government hackers can play in assisting industry.

The second half of each day included parallel sessions, dedicated to more in-depth and exciting workshops on a range of topics from CISO roles and responsibilities to the best use-cases shared by our INCS-CoE, and more. At these hands-on workshops, experts provided real-world examples and cyber breach scenarios wherein participants will learn the most effective strategies for identifying and managing cyber threats.

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Panel and speaker topics

• How national governments can work with each other and private sector to enhance cybersecurity
• Education in cybersecurity
• Industry cybersecurity
• The International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE)
• The Japanese Personal Information Protection Commission
• Cybersecurity Essentials: Implementing People, Processes and Technology to Reduce Risks
• How we can learn from government cyber experts’ technical operations contributing to national security & industry innovation

Workshop topics

• Cybersecurity Essentials: Implementing People, Processes and Technology to Reduce Risks
• Hacking Windows AD with PowerShell (Parts 1 and 2)
• Mobile Phishing (Parts 1 and 2)
• U.S.-Japan Cyber Collaboration
• Cyber Challenge: Responding to a Major Cyber Incident

Speakers and participants

• Adm. Dennis C. Blair, Sasakawa USA
• Barbara Grewe, MITRE
• Jason P. Hyland, U.S. Embassy Tokyo
• Hiroshi Ito, METI
• John Kirch, Darktrace
• Assaf Marco, Embassy of Israel
• Jun Murai, Keio University
• Pamela Passman, CREATe
• Ravi Pendse, Brown University
• Riley Repko, Cisco
• Andy Robbins, Veris Group
• William “Bud” Roth, Sasakawa USA
• Yuki Shigeiwa, DeNA
• Michael Smith, Akamai
• Yasuhiko Taniwaki, MIC
• Satoru Tezuka, Keio University
• Georgia Weidman, Shevirah and Bulb Security
• Shinichi Yokohama, NTT