Tomoo Yamauchi

Director-General for Cyber Security, CISO
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

June 2022, Tomoo YAMAUCHI assumed the position of Director-General in charge of Cyber Security and CISO, MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications). Between 2016 and 2021, he was in charge of Cybersecurity as Deputy Director-General and Counsellor of NISC (National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity), Cabinet Secretariat. At NISC, He was in charge of preparing Cybersecurity Strategies 2018 and 2021, incident response coordination for 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, amendment of Cybersecurity Basic Act and preparing Critical Infrastructure Action Plan. Before that, he was in charge of policies regarding research, development and promotion of space communications at MIC. In addition, he has a variety of experience in ICT policies. His previous assignments include radio wave policies such as land, maritime, aeronautical and satellite mobile communications.

He joined MIC in 1989, and before joining MIC, he received an M.E. degree in applied system science from Kyoto University.