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

AP Communications Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Takeshi Uchida, hereinafter "the Company") announces that three of its employees, Yasuhiro Yamane, Kengo Kishigami, and Daisuke Yanagida, belonging to the Company's Zero Trust business "0-WAN (Zero One)", participated in the selection committee for IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan*)'s "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026". The Company has participated for four consecutive years since 2023.

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

0-WAN is a business that started in response to the growing importance of Zero Trust due to increasing threats in cyberspace and the spread of remote work. In recent years, inquiries from companies facing challenges in responding to increasingly complex cyber attacks have been increasing.

* Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan is an independent administrative agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, established to support Japan's IT national strategy from both technological and human resource perspectives.

About "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026"

IPA publishes the "Top 10 Information Security Threats" with the expectation that it will help spread security measures. The "Top 10 Information Security Threats 2026" was determined through deliberation and voting by the "Top 10 Threats Selection Committee," consisting of approximately 250 members including information security researchers and corporate practitioners, after IPA selected threat candidates based on information security incidents and attack situations that had a significant social impact in 2025.

Profiles of Our Engineers Who Participated in the Selection Committee

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

Joined AP Communications in September 2021. Drawn to the concept of Zero Trust, he launched a security business specializing in the Zero Trust field as an in-house venture. Utilizing the knowledge and experience gained at a major ISP company, he has spoken at "Internet Week," a conference event on fundamental internet technologies, given lectures at various security seminars, and security...