Japanese Officials To Boost Counter Cyberattack Drills Ahead Of 2020 Olympics

Japanese government sources on Saturday said that it "plans to increase the number and scale of exercises aimed at countering cyberattacks during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics," according to the JAPAN TIMES. The drills, held about six times a year and involving ministry and agency officials, "will be increased to at least 10 and expanded to include local governments trailing in cybersecurity measures." The official website for the 2012 London Olympics "is known to have been attacked about 200 million times, and Japan is bracing for even more attacks in 2020." For Tokyo Olympic organizing committee officials, "the central government plans to run drills involving simulated attacks on the ticket sales system of a mock official website" (JAPAN TIMES, 1/2).