It has been announced that on September 27, 2019, Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi, one of the founding members and the first Board Chairman of JPCERT/CC, entered the Internet Hall of Fame as an inductee.
The Internet Hall of Fame was launched by an international NPO Internet Society (ISOC)(*1)in 2012 to recognize and celebrate an individual who made an extraordinary contribution to the development of the Internet. 103 individuals including 5 Japanese people have been commended before, and Suguru and 10 other new inductees were selected this year.
His leadership and contributions to cyber security research and education, to FIRST, the international CSIRT community, to relationship building among CSIRTs in Asia and Africa, and to WIDE Project (*2) and AI3 (*3) were highly evaluated.
New Class of Internet Hall of Fame Inductees Announced(ISOC)
2019 inductees recognized for contributions to Internet growth, access, and security around the world
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/press-releases/2019/new-class-of-internet-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/
Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi, the first Board Chairman of JPCERT/CC
Message from Dr. Hiroaki Kikuchi, the board chairman of JPCERT/CC:
I am happy from the bottom of my heart to hear that Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi received such great honor. The circumstances surrounding cyber security is getting severer day by day as the international relations become more complicated. Every member of JPCERT/CC will continue to be dedicated to cyber security, succeeding to the confidence in JPCERT/CC which Dr. Yamaguchi gained from the world.
| October 1996: |
Engaged in the establishment of Computer Emergency Response Center (JPCERT/CC) Appointed as Chair of Steering Committee for the Computer Emergency Response Center |
| March 2003: |
The Center renamed as of Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) Appointed as Board Chairman of JPCERT/CC |
| June 2004-2016: |
Appointed as Board Member of JPCERT/CC |
| Since 2010: |
Mainly engaged in enhancing global collaboration and human resource development |
| 2011-2013: | Appointed as Board Member of FIRST |
*1 Internet Society (ISOC): https://www.internetsociety.org/about-internet-society/
The Internet Society was founded in 1992 by a number of people involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). From those early days, one of our principal rationales is to provide an organizational home for and financial support for the Internet standards process.
*2 WIDE Project: http://www.wide.ad.jp/
WIDE Project is a joint research project between industry and universities on wide distributed computing environment. The project was launched by Jun Murai and other contributors in 1988 to "discuss the challenges in constructing a distributed computing system for people and the society by connecting computers and other devices on the earth" Over 100 organizations in Japan from universities to research institutions to private companies participate in the project.
*3 AI3: https://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ORF/2000/press/ai3.pdf
