What Information Security Education
Providers Association (ISEPA)is all about
ISEPA
Representative Daisuke Yogi, CISSP(c) Copyright 2008 ISEPA. All Rights Reserved.

Some current issues of professional
development in Information Security• Various trainings and certifications“Which one(s) are best fit for me?”• Unclear of effective skill development method“How to develop professional level security staff?”• Necessity to have common understanding ofcareer path as well as individual cert positioning“Where is my cert ranked?”“How to become CSO?”“It is difficult to maintain my cert.”

Need to establish industry-wide cooperation!
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Name and Its objectives
Japanese: 情報セキュリティ教育事業者連絡会
English: Information Security Education Providers Association
Abbreviated Name：ISEPAURL：http://www.jnsa.org/isepa/•••

Contribute to make the society more rich by promoting and support
professional development in information security
By forming association among education providers, to send out
more information on information security professional development
as well as develop and promote various activities to support raisingmore capable professionals
Explore the possibility to partner with universities to utilize thecontent association members have(c) Copyright 2008 ISEPA. All Rights Reserved.

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Logo and its origin
Image of shield
Image of people

Human Resource(人材）→Human Treasure（人財）“People” is the last shield to make sure the level of information
security is sufficient, therefore it is very important to raise as
many capable “people”. This is the idea behind the logo.
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ISEPA
NISC

MIC

PR、Sponsor、Instructor dev& othersupport

Members & Observers:
ＪＡＳＡ ＳＥＡ／Ｊ ＩＳＡＣＡ ＳＡＮＳ （ISC)2ＣｏｍｐＴＩＡ Softpia Hyogo, Infosec, LAC,JIPDEC, IAjapan, IPA ISSA, KCC Info Systems
Activities:
PR, Info Sharing, various partnership to promote,Skill/Career map dev. Training Content Dev,
Instructor training scheme dev. etc.

METICollegesInstitute of Infosec
CMUJ, Kogakuin Univ
Cyber Univ., Chuo Univ.
Tokyo Denki Univ, etc

Info sharing, sponsorship,
Advisory support

Admin support：JNSA
Support professional develop
HR Placement

Virtual Consulting
ServiceVarious Trainings,Career consulting

Info Dissemination,
Instructor training,Job Portal, etc

Gov’t Sectors
Enterprises

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Professional CandidatesProfessionals

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Members

Observers

CompTIA Japan

National Information Security Center (NISC)

Hyogo Information Education Organizations(CMUJ)

Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications

Infosec Corp.

Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry

ISACA Tokyo Chapter

Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA)(ISC)2 Japan

Japan Information Processing Development Corp
(JIPDEC)

Japan Info. Security Audit Association (JASA)Internet Association Japan （IAjapan）

Japan Network Security Association （JNSA)ISSA Tokyo Chapter

KKC Information Systems Co., Ltd
LAC Co., Ltd.
NRI Secure Technologies （SANS JAPAN)Ricoh Human Creates Co., Ltd
Security Education Alliances Japan (SEA/J)
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As of 3/25/2008

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What ISEPA is aiming for• Publish easy-to-understand education/cert
portfolio/mapping• Challenge for stable supply of more capableprofessionals• Support of social contribution through ourprofession• Challenge to build the environment for younger
generation to be dreamt ofHero in InfoSec Industry!!
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Thanks you very much!!
Mail to:daisuke.yogi@lac.co.jp(c) Copyright 2008 ISEPA. All Rights Reserved.

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