III. Policies for CIP 5. Enhancement of the Basis for CIP sharing should be promoted and properly protect services that should be newly positioned as CI services. The Cabinet Secretariat has endeavored to ascertain the current status through hearings, etc. with stakeholders, and will continue the review of the protection scope of CI, not limited to the conventional CI sectors, in light of changes in the social environment. The review covers companies significant for ensuring security,9 companies holding advanced technology and other intellectual property or business secrets important for strengthening Japan's international competitiveness, and other stakeholders whose cybersecurity measures need to be enhanced. Regarding (1) and (2) above, measures for newly added sectors and businesses are to be enhanced by stages in accordance with their status. 5.2 Promotion of public relations activities In order to minimize the impact of CISs outages to the smallest degree possible, it is important to not only raise the standard of cybersecurity measures implemented by CI operators, but also to ensure a calm response of the society as a whole, including other companies and the general public, in accordance with the situation of outages. Therefore, stakeholders should actively inform the general public of the framework of the Cybersecurity Policy and their activities in order to contribute to a calm response from the general public. The Cabinet Secretariat continues efforts to broadly publicize activities under this Cybersecurity Policy to deepen understanding of the general public through providing information on its website, issuing newsletters and holding lectures, and also studies more effective PR channels. As cybersecurity is subject to new threats and appropriate responses arising from environmental changes and technological innovation are required, it is necessary to collect information on new technologies and schema whose introduction is being discussed at an early stage and consider responses accordingly. The Cabinet Secretariat ascertains the status of each sector and collects information on technology trends, etc. through visit surveys, workshops and seminars to reflect such latest conditions on policies as needed. Additionally, the Cabinet Secretariat continues efforts to obtain understanding and cooperation of the top management of CI operators and related other businesses with the aim of further disseminating the concept of mission assurance and achieving "protection as plane." 5.3 Promotion of international cooperation In cyberspace, risks have been growing in the borderless domain, and it is internationally required to further respond to these borderless risks and positively contribute to capacity building for the purpose of improving the international level of cybersecurity measures, not limited to the national levels. 9 Including companies for which physical protection of nuclear materials or other measures are required 27