Press Information
October 6, 2023
National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Outcomes of the 16 t h ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Policy
Meeting
The 16th ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Policy Meeting (hereafter “Policy Meeting”)
was held from Tuesday, October 3 to Wednesday, October 4, 2023.
The Policy Meeting has been held annually since 2009, with the purpose of enhancing
international collaboration on cybersecurity among the ASEAN member states(hereafter “AMS”) and Japan.
In this year’s Policy Meeting, AMS and Japan exchanged views regarding the
cybersecurity policies of each country over the past year and also confirmed thestatus of collaborative activities (hereafter “CAs”) such as information sharing of thegood practice of critical information infrastructure protection, the topic of joint
awareness raising, capacity building, joint government-industry-academia partnershipand cyber exercises. Furthermore, they discussed how the CAs should be for thefuture.
As the result of that, AMS and Japan confirmed that they will make efforts for further
progress and also agreed to their engagement to the CAs in this Policy Meeting.

１ Date and Time
Date/Location：
October 3 (Tue) -4 (Wed) 2023, at Tokyo
Host：
Cabinet Secretariat (National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for
Cybersecurity (NISC), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Ministryof Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
Co-Chairs:
Japan (Visiting Prof. TAKAMIZAWA Nobushige, The University of Tokyo)
Philippines (Mr. Jeffrey Ian Dy, Undersecretary for Connectivity, Cybersecurity andUpskilling of Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT))
Keynote Speeches:
Dr. SHINODA Yoichi ( Cybersecurity Advisor to the National center of Incident
readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity)
Attendees：
Cybersecurity/Telecommunications related Government Agencies of AMS, ASEAN
Secretariat, Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry

２ Main achievements
In addition to confirming the current implementation status of the 9 CAs (Reference(Handbook), Mutual Notification for Incidents, Cyber Exercise, Critical Information
Infrastructure Protection, Awareness Raising, Capacity Building, Joint GovernmentIndustry-Academia and the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation)agreed upon at the 15th Policy Meeting held in October last year, participants also
discussed collaboration and cooperation among AMS and Japan going forward.
The main contents are below.
(1) Development of ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Reference (Handbook)
The result of development of the 2023 reference (Handbook) which compiles the latest
implementation status of cybersecurity efforts of AMS and Japan was reported. Also,
participants discussed and approved the direction of next year’s reference which some
new items such as public and private partnership will be added.
（２）Enhancing the Information Sharing Framework and the Incident Handling Skills
As a part of information sharing promotion framework among ASEAN and Japan, thisyear’s result including the reconfirming of mutual notification system or incident
handling mechanisms on the case of partner country’s cyber incident experience wasreported. Also, participants discussed further improvement of information sharingframework.
（３）Promoting Cyber Exercises for Enhancing Cyber Incident Response Capacity orAddressing Cyber Policy Challenges
A cybersecurity table top exercise was conducted in the August 2023 and, based on
the exercise result, the incident handling procedure of governmental agencies whencritical infrastructure sectors experience cyber incidents, efforts on the ensuring
reliability of administrative service or best practices and cybersecurity challenges ofeach country were reported. In addition, the direction of future cybersecurity exercise
was discussed.
（４）Promoting Efforts on the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
In the August of this year, the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Workshop
was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. At the workshop, it was reported that AMS and Japanexchanged their insights on the latest research and development situation regarding
critical infrastructure protection, security risks on the cloud environment, knowledge ofsecurity maturity or public and private collaboration initiatives.
Additionally, themes of next year’s CIIP Workshop was also discussed.
（５）Promoting Cooperation for Capacity Building
It was reported that the implementation status of cybersecurity capacity building(Human resource development) projects conducted by Japan and the cooperation withinternational organizations. The opening ceremony of the training program of theASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Capacity Building Centre (AJCCBC), the result of training
programs and future workshopｓ were reported. In addition, Japan explained “JP-USEU Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Week for the Indo-Pacific Region” whichis planned to be held in the mid of October including its hands-on training and seminars
on the Industrial Control System security, MOFA’s cooperation with the World Bank
“Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Trust Fund” and JICA training courses.
（６）Promoting Awareness Raising.
It was reported that video contents on the cybersecurity awareness raising nominatedby AMS and Japan were demonstrated and a film created by Indonesian students won
the best award. The ones made by Malaysian and Vietnamese students were won theexcellence awards.
（７）Joint Government-Industry-Academia Collaborative Activity and the 50th Year ofASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Activity
The progress of the Joint Government-Industry-Academia collaboration forcybersecurity capacity enhancement including critical infrastructure sectors among
entire of ASEAN region was reported.
Also, it was reported that the International Conference on ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity
Community was held on the 5th -6th of October and AMSs and Japan would facilitate
the discussions on the collaboration of each country’s cybersecurity related businessassociation.
３ Upcoming Schedule
The 17th Policy Meeting is scheduled to be held around October 2024 at Singapore.