Learn in the textbookReporting Systems and Public Support Organizations
DefinitionThe Computer Unauthorized Access Reporting System (コンピュータ不正アクセス届出制度) lets organizations and individuals who have suffered unauthorized access, including attempts, report what happened to IPA (the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan).
ExplanationIPA is an independent administrative agency that carries out national IT policy, and it is the contact point that receives these reports. Reporting is not a legal obligation. The aim is to compile attack trends and countermeasures from the collected cases and share them widely so that the same damage happens less often.
AnalogyIt is like gathering reports of break-ins across a neighborhood onto one map, which reveals what kinds of houses tend to be targeted.