Why NIST is so popular in Japan

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/nist-japan-workforce/

By Cynthia Brumfield
CYBERSCOOP
Nov 8, 2018

While all organizations around the globe continue to grapple with chronic 
shortages of qualified cybersecurity workers, Japan is tackling the 
problem in a significant way by turning to two U.S. government technology 
frameworks to help manage its own information security manpower shortages.

Japanese industry has turned to the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology's (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and National Initiative for 
Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Framework in an effort to fill 
the unique cybersecurity skills gap characteristic of Japanese companies.

Speaking at NIST's Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference in Baltimore, 
Maryland, Masato Kimura, a manager in the cybersecurity R&D planning 
department at Japanese telecom giant NTT, said that the NIST workforce 
framework in particular plays a pivotal role in Japan due to the high 
level of reliance by Japanese companies on outsourced IT and cybersecurity 
personnel.

In the U.S., around 71.5 percent of IT professionals work in-house, but in 
Japan, only 24.8 percent are company employees, according to Kimura.

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