Science Tokyo has established ScienceTokyo CERT as a team dedicated to information security. CERT stands for Computer Emergency Response Team, an organization that assists in creating a secure computing environment and emergency response to security incidents to facilitate research, education, and administrative activities. CERT believes that proactive response and countermeasures are the most important for security incidents, and focuses on information security-related activities, such as the dissemination of security information and the investigation of vulnerabilities within the university.
Science Tokyo CERT was established within the Information Security Management Committee as a highly independent organization with authority delegated from the CIO/CISO, because of the need to work and make decisions quickly in the event of an emergency.