September 11th, 2023
The SFC Forum has been selected to conduct the survey for "Industrial Control Systems
Cybersecurity Training for Indo-Pacific Region" for Japan International Cooperation
Agency （JICA）.
1. Business overview
Today, organizations everywhere are struggling to keep up with the unprecedented growthof the potentially fragile Internet of Things (IoT). Given that IoT devices and related services
are being developed in various countries and regions that make up the global supply chain, it
is imperative to ensure the reliability of the entire cyber-physical system from a new angle.
Energy Resource Aggregation Business (ERAB) is a new utility business that suppresses orincreases the amount of distributed energy resources (DER) and the demand for controllable
load (CL) in response to advanced sensor information and electricity demand.
The Cyber Physical Security Framework (CPSF), developed by the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry (METI), aims to lead the security design in this area. In addition, theAgency for Natural Resources and Energy and the Information-Technology Promotion Agency[IPA] have established the Cybersecurity Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines),
which provide guidelines for security design of ERAB systems.
The researchers of Keio University’s Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC), which isparticipating in this project, published CCRC Technical Report on Security Recommendations
for Distributed Energy System Aggregators1 in 2021 and has contributed to security design
with reference to the CPSF and the Guidelines, as well as to international collaboration onthese security designs.
This project aims to bring the results of the efforts made in Japan by the industry, thegovernment, and the academia to Malaysia, a major ASEAN country and a CC (IEC15408)
approved arrangement country on the 50th anniversary of the ASEAN and Japan Friendship
and Cooperation in 2023.
We will promote this as we work with academic institutions and private companies in Malaysia.

1 https://www.ccrc.keio.ac.jp/ccrc-technical-report-202109/

2. Implementation system
2-1. Japan side
The SFC Forum is anorganization established withthe aim of creating a place forcommunication to integrate
university research resultswith the human resources whowill lead the design of new
projects and policies.
The researchers of Keio
University’s Cyber Civilization
ResearchCenter(CCRC)
consists of a multidisciplinary
team of researchers with theobjectives of studying the risks
andbenefits
posedbytechnologicaladvances,analyzing the expected social
impacts, and devising tools(methods) to support effective
future planning.
Please refer to https://www.ccrc.keio.ac.jp/about/members/ for CCRC.
2-2. Malaysia side
The National Advanced IPv6 Center (Nav6) is a state-run academic research instituteestablished at University Sains Malaysia to promote advanced research on IPv6
networking and cyber security for IoT in Malaysia. Please refer tohttps://www.nav6.usm.my/ for Nav6.

Northern Lights Solutions (NLTVC) is a company that offers face-to-face and online IT
engineer education programs utilizing a video conferencing system that originated with theinvention of Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass. Please refer to https://www.nltvc.com/ for NLTVC.

Source and contact information:
General Incorporated Foundation SFC Forum (Contact: Katsuya Hirokawa, Secretary General)4489 105 Endo, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa
252-0816 E-mail: info@sfc-forum.or.jp