Japan’s High-Tech Local Governments Securing Thin Client and Sensitive Systems at Ichihara City Defense on the Inside, Defense on the Outside After the “Jyuki Net” citizen database failed miserably with a mere 5% participation rate, the Japanese govern- ment launched an initiative to revamp it into the more con- venient and useful “My Number” system on January 1, 2016. On June 2015, it was revealed that the Japan Pension Service had been hacked three months prior, leaking over a million citizens’ protected records. To ensure the safety of the new system, local and national government organiza- tions scrambled to better secure their data. Ichihara City was among the earliest to react to this news and almost immediately started their search for an upgrade of their data sec

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