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NICT REPORT 25ing sessions in all 47 Japanese prefectures, which were attended by 3,009 trainees (approximately twice the number trained in the previous year). CYDER has thus be-come Japan’s largest training program of this sort.(c) Overview and achievements of Cy-ber Colosseo (Fig.3)Since 2017, with the aim of providing phased and systematic training of people with the necessary skills in the run-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (which are now less than two years away), we have been providing se-curity personnel from organizations in-volved in the Olympic and Paralympic Games with training in advanced practical content such as offensive and defensive battles, in addition to the fundamental CY-DER knowledge. This culminated in the Cyber Colosseo training program where real systems are used to train people with even more advanced skills. In the first year of this program, we trained 74 security per-sonnel from organizations involved in the Games.Security innovator training pro-gram(a) Overview of SecHack365 (Fig.4)In order to provide practical training for the research and development of innova-tive security software and the like, it is nec-essary to obtain technical guidance and support based on the experience and achievements of leading researchers and engineers in addition to data related to cy-berattacks, such as malware samples and traffic data obtained from them, and R&D environments in which it is possible to conduct research and development using this data safely. At the National Cyber Training Center, by using NICT’s NON-STOP remote development environment and R&D knowledge, we are now offering a comprehensive skills development pro-gram based on a year-long combination of an ideathon, a hackathon, remote R&D, and exercises (SecHack365).(b) The achievements of SecHack365In the first period (FY2017) of SecHack365, we received 358 applications and conducted cybersecurity R&D training for 47 successful candidates (trainees). These 47 trainees were trained in a total of five group training meetings held throughout Japan in parallel with the remote guidance from trainers and the provision of a remote R&D envi-ronment, and presented the results of their research and development at a final pre-sentation meeting. The final presentation and the achievements of each trainee were also publicized in newspaper reports and other media, and drew a lot of atten-tion in Japan as a new solution to the issue of training young ICT professionals by gov-ernment agencies. In addition, four train-ees who had achieved excellent scores were sent to Austin, Texas to take part in the SXSW (South by Southwest) Hack-athon (the world’s largest creative event of its kind) as foreign observers. Their achievement was judged to be the most creative and was awarded a prize from Cloudinary, one of the companies spon-soring the event. In the future, we aim to employ research assistants with superior grades in order to guide their research and development efforts, and if we find promis-ing research achievements, we plan to fol-low them up by such means as applying for research and development at NICT. In this way, we aim to maximize the develop-ment of human resources by ensuring that this program provides continuity and de-velopment potential.Fig.2 : Virtual network environment for CYDER trainingFig.4 : SecHack365 program overviewFig.3 : Battle-oriented cyber training conceptResearch and Development