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MCAC-Japan Workshop and Launching Announcement

MCAC: The Multilateral Cybersecurity Action Committee

July 21 (Wed), 8:00 – 10:00 pm JST / 7:00 – 9:00 am US EDT
Virtual Online Webinar on Keio KGRI/CCRC
Online registration and Program website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mcac-japan-workshop-and-launching-announcement-tickets-162122168771

This workshop will be part of international Webinar series, focusing on the actions proposed by Multilateral Cybersecurity Action Committee (MCAC). In this event, the international leaders will shed light on the collaborative and individual actions from like-minded countries and industries. For example, the known plans such as the U.S. Solarium Report and the recent American Presidential executive orders, the European proposals for directives on network and information systems security and the resilience of critical entities, and the creation of a Japanese Digital Agency have been in the right directions.

To address new sophisticated cyber-attacks to such as SolarWinds, Microsoft Email, Colonial Pipeline, Ireland Health Care System, our urgent, sustained, concerted international actions are required. The MCAC proposals include but not limited to fundamental coordinated efforts involving public and private actions internationally.

• Introduction (5 min): Satoru Tezuka, Professor, Keio University

• Welcome Remarks: David Farber, Distinguished Professor, Co-Director, Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio University

• Announcement: Overall MCAC program, “The Importance of multilateral cybersecurity cooperation among the US, Japan and like-minded countries around the world.”

  • Speech #1 (15 min): Admiral Dennis Blair, Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence
  • Panel #1 (25 min):
    • ADM Dennis Blair
    • Nobukatsu Kanehara, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Secretariat, Japan
    • Greg Rattray, Former JPMorgan Chase CISO

• Achieving Safe and Secure Digital Transformation: What would be new Cybersecurity Infrastructures?

  • Speech #2 (15 min): Jun Murai, Professor, Keio University
  • Panel #2 (25 min):
    • David Farber
    • Jun Murai
    • Jim Foster, Senior Advisor to the New Digital Agenda Task Force at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
    • Michael Nelson, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Achieving National Security for the Technosphere: Semiconductor and Space

  • Speech #3 (15 min): Masanori Nishi, Former Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense
  • Panel #3 (25 min):
    • Masanori Nishi
    • Hideaki Watanabe, Former commissioner, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency, MoD
    • Junichi Nishiyama, Former Deputy General Manager, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry

• Next steps for MCAC-J towards goals (5 min): Kazuo Noguchi, Senior Researcher, Keio University

The program may change without notice.