Japan aims to more than quadruple its cyber defense personnel while increasing its overall staff dealing with cyber-attacks to 20,000 by fiscal 2027, according to government sources Monday.
According to the Defense Ministry, the Self-Defense Forces currently have about 890 cyber defense personnel, comprising about 540 members of the Cyber Defense Command, established in March, and 350 personnel in the SDF's Air, Ground and Marine units.
The sources said the ministry will increase this number to 4,000 over five years from the next fiscal year that begins April 2023.
