Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Collaborates with Agencies to Promote Cybersecurity

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Jan. 26, 2016 06:00 PST

Major Kusanagi and the members of Public Security Section 9 are on a quest to promote cybersecurity as part of an upcoming public awareness campaign.

The world of 2002’s animated masterpiece Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (hereafter “S.A.C.”) is set in 2030–only 14 years away. While the current world we inhabit is a far cry from the future depicted in the anime, there’s no doubt that many of the issues portrayed in the series will become more and more relevant in the years to come, especially ones concerning cyberterrorism and other cyber-crime issues.

And that makes the cybernetic law enforcement specialists of Ghost in the Shell‘s Public Security Section 9 perfect to team up with the real-life National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) and the Japan Network Security Association (JNSA) for an upcoming cybersecurity public awareness campaign!

Check out the following posters featuring Major Kusanagi and others created in promotion of this year’s Cybersecurity Month in Japan, from February 1-March 18:

▼ “Protect the net with us!”

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— NISC内閣サイバーセキュリティセンター (@cas_nisc) https://twitter.com/cas_nisc/status/689994166827401221">2016, 1月 21