(1). 1:In 2017 only 55% of firms of all sizes conducted cyber-security risk assessments, compared with 81% in America and 66% in Europe, according to a government agency tasked with promoting IT.
2:Another study last year revealed that whereas nearly 90% of American and Singaporean firms appoint a chief information-security officer, barely half of Japanese ones do.
1:在2017年,所有规模的公司中只有55%进行了网络安全风险评估,相比之下,美国和欧洲分别为81%和66%,据一家负责推广信息技术的政府机构称。
2:去年的另一项研究显示,有近90%的美国公司和新加坡公司任命了首席信息安全官,但只有一半的日本公司进行了任命。
(2). 1:An executive of a big shipping company acknowledges the need for better cyberprotection but grumbles that “it is a cost”.
2:That echoes the sentiment of 64% of companies, big and small, surveyed in 2017 that viewed cyber-security as an expense, not an investment.
3:Japanese firms spend 2.4% of their revenues on IT, a third less than in America.
4:A smaller share of the lower spending goes to cyber-defences: whereas 85% of American firms devote at least a tenth of their IT budgets to security, in Japan 62% spend less than a tenth.
5:And, as with Windows 7, a portion of that goes on preserving outdated technology.
1:一家大型航运公司的高管承认需要更好的网络保护,但却抱怨“这是一份花销”。
2:在2017年接受调查的大小型公司中,有64%的公司同上述观点一致,认为网络安全是一项开支,而不是一项投资。
3:日本公司在信息技术上的支出占总收入的2.4%,比美国少三分之一。
4:在较低的网络安全开支中,有一小部分用于安全防御:85%的美国公司投入至少十分之一的信息技术预算用于网络安全,而62%的日本公司投入不到十分之一。
5:就像是Windows 7系统一样,这其中的一部分日本公司继续保留着过时的技术。
(3). 1:“Executives must stop thinking of network security as an IT problem and start seeing it as a business challenge,” says Kajiura Toshinori of the Japan Cyber-security Innovation Committee, a think-tank, who advises Keidanren, Japan’s main business lobby.
2:That is easier said than done.
3:Nine in ten firms say they have trouble recruiting cyber-security personnel—another sharp contrast with America, where fewer than one in five report such problems.
4:Japan’s shrinking labour force doesn’t help, especially outside big cities.
5:Even in Tokyo many IT analysts lament low pay and a lack of career paths.
6:Plenty leave the profession entirely.
7:Unlike baseball fans, there are no robots to make up the shortfall.
1:“高管们必须停止将网络安全视为一项信息技术问题,而应开始将其视为业务挑战,”日本智库日本网络安全委员会,日本主要营业厅Keidanren的顾问Kajiura Toshinori表示。
2:说起来容易做起来难。
3:九成的公司表示在招聘网络安全人员时遇到了困难——这与美国的情况形成鲜明对比,只有不到五分之一的美国公司报告存在此类问题。
4:尤其是在大城市外,日本劳动力的萎缩使情况雪上加霜。
5:即使是在东京,许多信息技术分析师也对低工资和缺乏职业发展道路感到遗憾。
6:很多人完全离开了这个行业。
7:但是与球迷的情况不同,不会有机器人来填补不足。