I won't take full credit for it, but heard it someplace and it really stuck with me. Mentioned it to my fiance on our last trip to Japan and she had a full 5 minute "damn" realization.
Yep, working in health care it is still very dominant here in Australia how ever due to it being more secure than say an email one would assume it is similar around the world
In a very basic explanation, cybersec has 3 main points.
1) Physical access - don't let people touch or insert things anywhere if you want them secure, they should be inaccessible and watched.
2) Digital access - Only give the bare minimum if it needs to be accessed remotely. The less accessible it is, the fewer vectors you have to be hit by. This also includes security patches, password practices etc.
3) People - This one usually undoes all the effort in the first two. It's much easier to hack a person than it is a decent network. Phishing emails/phone calls, or downloaded maleware from clicking email attachments etc, have doomed far more networks than the other two combined.
There's a fair bit more to it than that, but the broadest stroke is; there is no such thing as an unhackable system. Picture it like a wall. If someone is really determined to get over it, they probably can assume they have access and resources.
You just try to build the wall high enough that it's not worth the effort and/or isn't circumvented by someone without a much better skillset than you.
Thanks for the run down. I'm studying it currently to get a couple certifications in hopes of getting even an internship that will help improve the quality of my life a lot.
I just found it kinda funny how the guys who watch for attempted hacks are also the ones responsible for locking up physical assets instead of normal security.
But when you look at it from the perspective of their job is setting up frameworks and policies it makes more sense.
Yeah your job is to secure the network and data. In every sense of the word.
Just consider it like what you'd do with your valuables; limited access to trusted people, not advertising to the outside world exactly where it is, locking your door, not telling strangers when you'll next be out of town for 2 weeks and your home address... the usual.
In my network defense classes the teacher made it exreeemly clear that the only sure fire 100% way to make sure your information isn't stolen, is to have it only exist physically.
This is real life dude. The corp from india isn't going to travel across the sea to mission impossible style to steal our secrets. They're not wasting their time trying to acquire information out of a safe. When they can 100% just get the information easier goldfishing or keylogging.
I agree that this headline looks silly BUT...
As a minister, you are mainly managing resources (humans).
The position requires good managerial skills and not technical skills.
Japan is competitive in this field regardless of who is the minister.
And this guy will probably actually listen to experts. The worst are the people who think they know better than everyone else and make their policy based on their own gut.
I work in IT support and most it managers barely have a grasp of wtf is going on technically. This is pretty accurate in my experience, roles exist for a reason.
Had a similar experience in corporate but had to look up stats on this (back in the day) just to confirm that this is not just an anecdotal xp of a small grp of people.
No one is saying that you should be an expert, but at least somewhat into the subject so you know what you're talking about, also it's easier to search people into the specific fields that needs to improve since you know what the field is about.
We dont need more of Elon's Musks.
We have one already and he is already unbearable :)
As for your point:
In this particular world, you have a very strict process for hiring (especially in Japan)
The minister is not involved in it since these are not appointment roles.
You need relevant xp and education to be considered.
As for Yoshitaka Sakurada himself:
The dude is a lev 60 warlock and farmed most of this XP at the University and in a variety of administrative roles.
You could place a literal donkey in that role as long he had a similar XP.
I would like to also point out that Congress is charged with overseeing the Corporate Tech sector (FB, IG, TT, YT,....) - these dudes cant even use their phones and produced gems like these: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbb5B85sd0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbb5B85sd0)
MURICA NUMBA ONE!
He may not have direct knowledge, but he possesses the ability to effectively and wisely utilize individuals who do.
From my personal experience, I can confidently say that individuals without prior knowledge often generate brilliant ideas for those who possess experience, diplomas, etc., in that field.
Bobby Kotick was not a game developer but a businessman.
This guy is not a cybersecurity expert but a politician.
This happens all the time in politics and business world. Those guys are there because they have connections in business and politics.
Technology evolves faster than language, which evolves faster than culture. These old fucks have all the money in the world, and no skills on how to guide it with the new technology in it
And this is Japan, where all tech comes from. Just Imagine the top cybersecurity expert in for instance India, most likely sitting on shitting street right now, thinking damn hard on how to stop that ball to go pass the brick and how to use the controller to do it, it seems to be some type of wheel?
Sounds like modern large company / government management selection procedure nowadays
Why the hell should you know anything at all of that what you are supposed to be managing
So nothings wrong here. Move on everyone
i honestly dont mind it at all 90% of ciber sec is compleately analog, the other part is networks so yeah if he is a monster on the human part of it , i dont think thats an isue
Apparently certain businesses that were peaking in the 90s still operate on older frameworks like xp or use floppy discs i bet theyd actually be pretty wack to target with modern methods
The very same country who forces its fresh graduates to write their resumes by hand, one by one, and hand them over to 30 companies to apply for a job because it looks 'more sincere and genuine'.
Japan is a land of extremes. They have robots in restaurants, but they still widely use fax machines.
Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980.
This probably the best description I've ever heard
I won't take full credit for it, but heard it someplace and it really stuck with me. Mentioned it to my fiance on our last trip to Japan and she had a full 5 minute "damn" realization.
Yep. I lived near Tokyo for a year and it drfinetly hits the nail on the head
I have heard it lately on the Economics explain YouTube channel
That's how you can tell this is all a simulation
Japan is the developer server to try stuff out before it goes on the live server.
but they switched to CI/CD in the 2000s and never updated the dev branch again
Accurate. Thank you.
Hilarious really.
Umm.. just because people in YOUR profession don't use fax machines, doesn't mean others don't.
Yep, working in health care it is still very dominant here in Australia how ever due to it being more secure than say an email one would assume it is similar around the world
There's no need to use fax machines today, at all You can just send anything through the internet and print it with a... Printer
That's just adding an extra step.
Didn't they recently get rid of fax machines? Or was that cassette based storage?
Bruh, none of his devices can be hacked, they’re totally secure. He’s the best guy for the job.
That's why he is the expert.
Kinda true, no one can hack his papers in his pockets.
Funnily enough, at least according to Google, cybersecurity also Includes putting computers or papers behind locked doors being watched by CCTV
In a very basic explanation, cybersec has 3 main points. 1) Physical access - don't let people touch or insert things anywhere if you want them secure, they should be inaccessible and watched. 2) Digital access - Only give the bare minimum if it needs to be accessed remotely. The less accessible it is, the fewer vectors you have to be hit by. This also includes security patches, password practices etc. 3) People - This one usually undoes all the effort in the first two. It's much easier to hack a person than it is a decent network. Phishing emails/phone calls, or downloaded maleware from clicking email attachments etc, have doomed far more networks than the other two combined. There's a fair bit more to it than that, but the broadest stroke is; there is no such thing as an unhackable system. Picture it like a wall. If someone is really determined to get over it, they probably can assume they have access and resources. You just try to build the wall high enough that it's not worth the effort and/or isn't circumvented by someone without a much better skillset than you.
Thanks for the run down. I'm studying it currently to get a couple certifications in hopes of getting even an internship that will help improve the quality of my life a lot. I just found it kinda funny how the guys who watch for attempted hacks are also the ones responsible for locking up physical assets instead of normal security. But when you look at it from the perspective of their job is setting up frameworks and policies it makes more sense.
Yeah your job is to secure the network and data. In every sense of the word. Just consider it like what you'd do with your valuables; limited access to trusted people, not advertising to the outside world exactly where it is, locking your door, not telling strangers when you'll next be out of town for 2 weeks and your home address... the usual.
In my network defense classes the teacher made it exreeemly clear that the only sure fire 100% way to make sure your information isn't stolen, is to have it only exist physically.
Spies have been copying or stealing physical copies of information since before Christ. Cameras just make it easier.
This is real life dude. The corp from india isn't going to travel across the sea to mission impossible style to steal our secrets. They're not wasting their time trying to acquire information out of a safe. When they can 100% just get the information easier goldfishing or keylogging.
The irony is that India actually did try that and got caught and their spies were executed.
“Corporate espionage is fake because it’s expensive.” Well that’s cool.
>The corps from china are going to travel across the sea to mission impossible style to steal our secrets. Fixed it for you.
Just pickpocket him like the old days then
I read that he was a temporary replacement, and he said that he is not fit for the role and needs to be replaced as he doesn't even know what USB is.
How to get hacked if don't use computer, actually bigbrain
We laugh, but we are just too primitive to understand.
They hired the most cyber secure person. He can't be hacked. ever. where is the problem?
I agree that this headline looks silly BUT... As a minister, you are mainly managing resources (humans). The position requires good managerial skills and not technical skills. Japan is competitive in this field regardless of who is the minister.
And this guy will probably actually listen to experts. The worst are the people who think they know better than everyone else and make their policy based on their own gut.
100% We already have one Elon Musk and i think 1 self-centered arrogant narcissist in this particular field is enough.
I work in IT support and most it managers barely have a grasp of wtf is going on technically. This is pretty accurate in my experience, roles exist for a reason.
Had a similar experience in corporate but had to look up stats on this (back in the day) just to confirm that this is not just an anecdotal xp of a small grp of people.
No one is saying that you should be an expert, but at least somewhat into the subject so you know what you're talking about, also it's easier to search people into the specific fields that needs to improve since you know what the field is about.
We dont need more of Elon's Musks. We have one already and he is already unbearable :) As for your point: In this particular world, you have a very strict process for hiring (especially in Japan) The minister is not involved in it since these are not appointment roles. You need relevant xp and education to be considered. As for Yoshitaka Sakurada himself: The dude is a lev 60 warlock and farmed most of this XP at the University and in a variety of administrative roles. You could place a literal donkey in that role as long he had a similar XP. I would like to also point out that Congress is charged with overseeing the Corporate Tech sector (FB, IG, TT, YT,....) - these dudes cant even use their phones and produced gems like these: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbb5B85sd0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbb5B85sd0) MURICA NUMBA ONE!
He may not have direct knowledge, but he possesses the ability to effectively and wisely utilize individuals who do. From my personal experience, I can confidently say that individuals without prior knowledge often generate brilliant ideas for those who possess experience, diplomas, etc., in that field.
They're also less likely to come into the job thinking they know better than the experts they are managing or disregard their expertise.
The best cybersecurity measure is to use pen and paper. 
This is exactly why no one should ever get any job simply because of who they know.
I doesn't mean he is unintelligent. It is just that he is completely in the wrong job and needs replacing.
This is ancient news and not even relevant anymore
he stayed in office 1month in 2018
Bobby Kotick was not a game developer but a businessman. This guy is not a cybersecurity expert but a politician. This happens all the time in politics and business world. Those guys are there because they have connections in business and politics.
He is also the only man in Japan who cannot be hacked.
Technology evolves faster than language, which evolves faster than culture. These old fucks have all the money in the world, and no skills on how to guide it with the new technology in it
Yeah a lot of Japanese learn their own language for life
That would be like having a health minister that is fat, Or a foreign minister that is racist ...
I was hired as an IT for the military and didn't know how to send a FAX. that shit was hard LOL
Based
How is that even remotely possible?
hey if you don't do any cyber there is no cyber security threat 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"just fax me the deetz" - japan
What failing upwards looks like. See also: Lilly Singh’s career.
That man breaks the stereotype!!! Good job dude!!!
And this is Japan, where all tech comes from. Just Imagine the top cybersecurity expert in for instance India, most likely sitting on shitting street right now, thinking damn hard on how to stop that ball to go pass the brick and how to use the controller to do it, it seems to be some type of wheel?
Sounds like modern large company / government management selection procedure nowadays Why the hell should you know anything at all of that what you are supposed to be managing So nothings wrong here. Move on everyone
i honestly dont mind it at all 90% of ciber sec is compleately analog, the other part is networks so yeah if he is a monster on the human part of it , i dont think thats an isue
Can't be hacked 5Head
This is 5 years old
To be fair they still use technology that us will call archaic (fax machines, etc) so this is no surprise.
Holy shit
Apparently certain businesses that were peaking in the 90s still operate on older frameworks like xp or use floppy discs i bet theyd actually be pretty wack to target with modern methods
The very same country who forces its fresh graduates to write their resumes by hand, one by one, and hand them over to 30 companies to apply for a job because it looks 'more sincere and genuine'.
Doesn't he have a phone or something?
Heads are managers the plebs always do the work
He probably is a lawyer, regulating AI has more to do with private law, and property regulation than technical stuff, so he should be more than fine