SETO Takashi
Research Fellow, Cyber Security Division, Policy Studies Department
SETO Takashi
Researchmap (English)別ウィンドウ
Security Studies, Regional Studies-Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Intelligence and National Security Cyber and Information Warfare European Security

Education and Professional Experience

  • 2016
    B.A. Keio University
  • 2018
    Master of Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo
  • 2018-
    2020
    Research Associate, Asia Pacific Initiative.
  • 2020-
    2021.3
    Researcher, Emerging Security Challenges Division / Economic Security Policy Division, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • 2021-
    Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies
  • 2026.1–
    2026.3
    Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University.

Selected Publications

Japanese

  • 日本版「能動的サイバー防御(ACD)」を支える政府組織のデザイン ――インテリジェンス駆動型サイバーセキュリティ政策を支える2つの「出島組織」(Designing an Institutional Framework for Japan’s Active Cyber Defense (ACD): Two Strategic Government Outposts enabling Intelligence-Driven Cybersecurity Policy)
    Cybersecurity and Active Cyber Defense (ACD): Project Commentary. vol.7, Tokio Marine dR Co., Ltd, January 2026[in Japanese]
  • 米国サイバー軍の「ハントフォワード作戦(Hunt Forward Operations)」(2018年~2025年)――データ・歴史・実務の視点から捉える7年間の発展の軌跡(U.S. Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operations (2018–2025): A Seven-Year Analysis of Historical Evolution and Operational Practice)
    NIDS Research & Analysis, No.5 (National Institute for Defense Studies: December 2025) ISBN 978-4-86482-157-5. [in Japanese]
  • 「顕教」と「密教」のあいだ ― 近年の欧米諸国による政府のサイバー安全保障体制改革の潮流
    Between Secrecy and Publicity-Emerging Trends of National Cybersecurity Organizations Reforms in the Western Countries
    Monthly Public Safety Review, Vol.30, No.11, 44-55, March 2024 [in Japanese]
  • 対外工作機関としての中国公安部——公開情報分析から辿る、近年の対外的な工作活動とその内在的論理
    The Chinese Ministry of Public Security as an External Influence Agency: Recent Covert Operations and Their Internal Logic as Traced through Open-Source Analysis
    NIDS Commentary, No.371, 1-15, April 2025 [in Japanese](Co-authored with Yohei Goto)
  • サイバー攻撃対処における「攻撃キャンペーン概念」と「コスト賦課アプローチ」―近年の米国政府当局によるサイバー攻撃活動への対処事例の考察から
    Concepts of Cyber Campaigning and Cost-Imposition Strategy in/through Cyberspace: Theoretical and Empirical Perspective
    NIDS Commentary, No.346, 1-28, August 2024 [in Japanese](Co-authored with Hayato Sasaki)
  • 民主主義国家のサイバー軍による攻勢的サイバー作戦能力の整備と運用――米軍とオランダ軍における「二重の統合」の過程に着目した比較事例研究
    Military Cyber Forces (MCF) as Integrator of Offensive Cyber in Democracies: Comparative Studies of the ‘Dual Integration’ mechanism through the U.S. and Netherlands MCF
    Security and Strategy, Vol.4, No.2, 177-201, March 2024 [in Japanese]
  • パブリックアトリビューションの「拡散」と『多様化」 ――政策当局間の「多様化」の国際比較研究
    Diffusion and Diversification in Public Attribution Policies of Cyber Operations: Comparative Attribution Politics in the US Instrumentation and EU Judicialization
    Security and Strategy, Vol.3, No.2, 63-83, March 2023 [in Japanese]
  • 書評論文:志田淳二郎著『ハイブリッド戦争の時代 ――狙われる民主主義』
    Book Review: Shida Junjiro, Hybrid War: Enduring Threats to Democracy
    The Journal of International Security, Vol. 50, No.2, 122-126, September 2022
  • ロシアのウクライナ侵攻と米英両国のインテリジェンス公表政策―情報機関の'ジレンマ'と2014年以降の安全保障協力の'系譜'
    Weaponized Disclosure of Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War: Disclosure Dilemma and Hidden Inheritance from Post-2014 Transatlantic Security Cooperation
    NIDS Commentary, No.224, 1-12, May 2022
  • 国家のサイバー攻撃とパブリック・アトリビューション―ファイブ・諸国のアトリビューション連合とSolarWinds事案対応
    Public Attribution to State-sponsored Cyber activities: Five Eyes' Attribution Coalition and SolarWinds Incident Response
    NIDS Commentary, No.179, 1-15, July 2021

English

Presentation and Conference Paper

Japanese

  • 情報機関/法執行機関と市民社会の「OSINT コミュニティ」―マレーシア航空MH17 便撃墜事件をめぐる国際共同捜査の事例から
    (Knowledge Co-Production between Intelligence/Law Enforcement Agencies and Civil Society OSINT
    The Japan Association of International Security(JAIS) Annual Convention 2024, Dec 7, 2024. [in Japanese]
  • CTIの生態系/市場と対峙する政府のインテリジェンス
    Adaptation of the Government Intelligence vis-a-vis Emergence of the Cyber-threat intelligence(CTI) ecosystems/market.
    NIDS Workshop on the Opportunities and Challenges of Multi-stakeholder Governance on Cyber-threat intelligence, March 1, 2024 [In Japanese]
  • 情報化時代の「コバート・アクション(covert action)」――国家による攻撃的サイバー作戦をめぐる課題の歴史的な連続性
    Covert Action in the Information Age: Challenges of the State-sponsored Offensive Cyber Operations from a Historical Perspective.
    Conference Paper presented at the Japan Association of International Relations(JAIR) Annual Convention 2022, Octber 30, 2022
  • サイバー・アトリビューションをめぐる「政策」と「政治」—2010 年代後半における各国政府の対処様式と目的の多様化
    Policy and Politics of Cyber Attribution:Divergence by Internationalization and Marketization
    Presentation at the Cyber Security Legislation Society, July 30, 2022

English

  • Disruptive Counter-Cyber Operations Leveraging Trilateral Assets in Indo-Pacific?
    Conference Paper presented at CSBA Trilateral Strategic Dialogue, April 21, 2021

Teaching Experience / Other Professional Appointments