ANNEX 5. DEFINITIONS / GLOSSARIES
ANNEX 5. DEFINITIONS / GLOSSARIES
CEPTOAR
CEPTOAR council
CI
CI operators
CI sectors
CI services (CISs)
CISs crisis
Capability for Engineering of Protection, Technical Operation, Analysis and Response; Functions
which provide information sharing and analysis at CI operators, and organizations which serve as
these functions
The council composed of representatives of each CEPTOAR which carries out information sharing
between CEPTOARs; An independent body, not positioned under other agencies, including
government organizations
The backbone of national life and economic activities formed by businesses providing services that
are extremely difficult to be substituted; If the function of the services is suspended, deteriorates or
becomes unavailable, it could have a significant impact on the national life and economic activities.
Operators designated in "Applicable CI operators" in "ANNEX 1. SCOPE OF CI OPERATORS
AND CRITICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM EXAMPLES" and groups composed of those
designated operators
Sectors regarding CI designated for each business type; Specifically, as follows: "information and
communication services," "financial services," "aviation services," “airport services,” "railway
services," "electric power supply services," "gas supply services," "government and administrative
services (including local government)," "medical services," "water services," "logistics services,"
"chemical industries," "credit card services" and "petroleum industries"
Services and/or a set of procedures provided by CI operators necessary to utilize those services that
are designated as those to be protected in particular for each CI sector, taking into account the extent
of their impact on national life and economic activities
Large-scale CISs outages which require intensive response by the government such as the
establishment of the Cabinet Response Office at the Crisis Management Center in the Prime
Minister's Office
Situation where system failures hinder safe and continuous provision of CI services
CISs outages
Contingency plans
Crisis
management
ministries
Critical
information
systems
Cybersecurity measures
Cybersecurity
agencies
related
Cybersecurity
ministries
related
Plans formulated in advance with regard to policies, procedures, readiness, etc. for initial responses
(emergency responses) to be taken by top management and officials, etc. immediately after CI
operators recognize the occurrence or a possibility of CISs outages
The National Police Agency (NPA); Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA); Japan Coast
Guard (JCG); Ministry of Defense (MOD)
Information systems required to provide CI services, designated for each CI operator, taking into
account of the degree of impact on its CI services
A wide range of activities for preventing CISs outages from affecting the national life and economic
activities
The National Police Agency Cyber Force; National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT); National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST);
Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA); ICT Information Sharing And Analysis Center
Japan (ICT-ISAC Japan); Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
(JPCERT/CC); Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3)
The National Police Agency (NPA); Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC);
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA); Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI); Secretariat
of the Nuclear Regulation Authority(*); Ministry of Defense (MOD)
* The ministry engaging in cybersecurity-related duties from the perspective of ensuring safety of
nuclear power plants
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