Overview
- Senior government sources say the cabinet will finalize the emergency countermeasures after a ministerial meeting on Friday, Nov. 6, before publicly announcing the plan.
- The draft calls for a public–private 'cyber rescue team' to dispatch specialist personnel to affected companies to help with initial containment, forensics and recovery.
- The plan would centralize cross-ministry incident reporting at the Cabinet Secretariat’s National Cyber Coordination Office so the government and industry can jointly analyze and respond to breaches.
- Officials intend to expand Active Cyber Defense by increasing personnel and equipment to allow lawful measures such as entering attacker servers and disabling malicious programs.
- The package emphasizes AI-driven vulnerability detection and targeted support for critical sectors like medical institutions, which aims to reduce repeat personal-data leaks and speed recovery for affected users.