Mihoko Matsubara is an adjunct fellow at the Pacific Forum. You can follow her @M_Miho_JPN.
Japan and the UK have been strengthening their cybersecurity collaboration over the last six years. Last month, they held their fourth bilateral dialogue on cyberspace in London to discuss their cooperation on the Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the development of international cyber norms, the security of internet of things devices, and capacity building. Although the benefits of Japan-UK cybersecurity collaboration might not be self-evident, both can learn from each other to improve their respective cybersecurity and jointly collaborate on cybersecurity capacity building efforts in Southeast Asia.
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Japan, which is hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, has a lot to learn from the United Kingdom on cybersecurity. Major sporting events have become targets for malicious cyber activity. UK authorities had to contend with a potential cyber incident that could have disrupted the electricity infrastructure powering the opening ceremony of…
