Our Employees Participate in the Selection Committee for IPA's "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026"

AP Communications Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takeshi Uchida; hereinafter "the Company") announces that three of its employees from the zero-trust business "0-WAN"—Yasuhiro Yamane, Kengo Kishigami, and Taishin Yanagida—participated in the selection committee for the "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026" organized by the IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan*). This is the fourth consecutive year the Company has participated, starting from 2023.

[IPA "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026": https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/10threats/10threats2026.html]

The 0-WAN business was launched in response to the growing importance of zero-trust due to increasing threats in cyberspace and the proliferation of remote work. There has been a rise in consultations from companies facing challenges in dealing with increasingly complex cyberattacks in recent years.

* The Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) is an independent administrative agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, established to support Japan's national IT strategy from both a technical and human resource perspective.

About the "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026"

The IPA publishes the "Top 10 Information Security Threats" with the hope that it will contribute to the popularization of security measures. The "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026" are determined after the IPA selects threat candidates based on socially impactful information security incidents and attacks that occurred in 2025. This is followed by deliberation and voting by the "Top 10 Threats Selection Committee," which is composed of approximately 250 members, including researchers in the information security field and practitioners from various companies.

Profiles of Our Engineers Who Participated in the Selection Committee

Yasuhiro Yamane, Engineering Manager, 0-WAN, BzD Department, iTOC Business Division

Joined AP Communications in September 2021. Attracted by the concept of zero-trust, he launched a security business specializing in the zero-trust field as an internal venture. Leveraging the knowledge and experience gained at a major ISP, he has given presentations at the "Internet Week" conference on fundamental internet technologies, spoken at various security seminars, and engaged in security...