On Monday, the Tokyo police and representatives of about 130 leading companies in Japan began large large -scale practical classes to practice technologies for combating computer terrorism. About 5.5 thousand people take part in these exercises.
According to Kyoto, the exercises will continue until February 6 under the control of the Cybersecurity Center under the police in Tokyo. During the training, actions to detect viruses in computer systems that steal confidential information.
The Tokyo Police Department wants to increase the vigilance of business structures to cyber attacks on computers using training events. They are based on scenarios where hackers infect the company’s computer system, encrypt the data and threaten to open it in the absence of a ransom.
At the initial part of the exercises that was available to the press, the participants checked suspicious emails, investigated the files downloaded into the network of the company, and approved the procedures for interacting with the police.
According to the Nikkei business newspaper on January 22, the number of cyber attacks in Japan has doubled over the past 3 years. In 2019, the daily average level of unauthorized access attempts was 4.1 thousand, and in the first half of 2022 this figure increased to 7.7 thousand