We are very pleased to announce that our Keynote for Japan 2007 will be Mr. Suguru Yamaguchi, of Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Mr. Yamaguchi will be speaking on "Emerging New Technologies for Information Security Management"
From the Abstract:
Information systems are now taking the important role to support core competence components of businesses in various industries so that they requires more dependability and sustainability. New technologies for improvement to make information systems more dependable are emerging from R&D field to the actual operational environment, however still more development are expected. In this keynote session, the speaker presents new risk on information security coming up with information systems, then express his views and directions on technical solutions and technologies required.
Suguru Yamaguchi, Bio:
Suguru Yamaguchi was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1964. He received the M.E. and D.E. degrees in computer science from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1990 to 1992 he was an Assistant Professor in Education Center for Information Processing, Osaka University. In 1992, he was moved to Information Technology Center, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, and served as an Associate Professor till 1993. From 1993 to 2000, he was with Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Sc ience and Technology, Nara, Japan, as an Associate Professor. In 2000, he was promoted to a Professor with the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan. During his work in Nara Institute of Science and Technology, he has been working very aggressively on research, education and management. Especially from 2002 to 2004, he served as Director of University Library, and devoted himself to i mprove and enhance the digital library system, which was the nation's first digital library system available for national universities, initially funded in 1995.His research interests include technologies for information sharing, multimedia communication over high-speed communication channels, large-scale distributed computing systems, network security and network management for the Internet. Since mid 1980's, he has been working very hard on development the Internet in Japan and Asia and Pacific region. He has been also a member of WIDE project, which is one of pioneer projects for the Internet development, since its creation in 1988. In the project, he has been conducting research on network security system, especially PKI infrastructure for wide area distributed computing environment.
In 2004, he was appointed to Advisor on Information Security, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan. He has been deeply involved to design and implementation of basis of national policy on information security and establishment of National Information Security Center (NISC) in Cabinet Secretariat in 2005. Even though he is still working for his university, he didn't spare himself for this important task in the government. Because of tight relationship with government's information security policy, he was also appointed to Advisor for Government Program Management Office (GPMO) at secretariat office of IT Strategic Headquarter, Government of Japan.
With his contribution for Internet development and network security, he is involved and working with several organizations. Since 1992, he was working for JPCERT/CC, which is a first national CSIRT in Japan, and now serving as a member of its board of trustee. Since 2002, he has been a member of board of trustee of Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC), which is national Internet registry managing IP address and AS number allocations and registrations. For the Internet development in Asia and Pacific region, he is working so long for Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3) since its creation in 1996.
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