IIJ Renews Service Menu and Pricing of IIJ Safous Security Assessment, Providing Security Risk Visualization

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TOKYO - July 12, 2024 - Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (TSE Prime: 3774), one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced a revised service menu and pricing for its IIJ Safous Security Assessment service. First offered in December 2022, the service visualizes the risks to IT assets that can be accessed on the Internet.
Based on a risk assessment platform that uses attack surface(*) monitoring and threat information provided by cybersecurity company SecurityScorecard, the service identifies attack surfaces from the same standpoint as attackers, scores the security risks, and issues reports, while also providing threat analysis by IIJ Group security engineers and proposing improved countermeasures. IIJ has now enhanced the services in the annual contract plan and made the plan available at a reduced price, enabling customers to implement periodical security risk assessment even more readily than up to now, for quick response to the threats occurring daily.

• (*)Attack surface: All possible points or vectors by which IT assets are vulnerable to a cyber-attack.

IIJ Safous Security Assessment is a security risk visualization service that has gained many users since becoming available in December 2022, not only among Japanese corporations and their overseas sites and business partners, but also including local firms in the Southeast Asia region where IIJ has business bases. Damage from cyber-attacks has become an increasingly serious problem in recent years, as numerous security incidents continue to occur worldwide. In Japan alone, there are cases of social infrastructure being temporarily shut down, and of supply chain vulnerabilities coming under threat, leading to information leaks. Corporations are called upon more than ever to conduct security risk assessments of the networks and systems in their own and related organizations, and to institute adequate countermeasures. Since the threats continue to escalate daily, however, this is not something to be performed just once. It is vital to carry on regular audits and quickly identify risks.

IIJ has responded to these needs by renewing the currently offered IIJ Safous Security Assessment service, making it easier for customers to conduct periodical security risk assessment by enhancing the service while reducing the price of the annual contract plan. Besides providing monthly assessment reports, the annual plan now comes with a function for notifying customers in real time of information about security risks newly discovered during the contract term, and for customers without their own dedicated security personnel, offers prompt support in countering security risks. Also available as an optional service is "security analyst meeting," in which an IIJ security analyst gives an online explanation of the assessment report content, enabling a more thorough understanding of risks.

Plan and pricing

	Service plan	Description	Price (excluding tax)
Basic Service	Annual contract	For the applicable domain, monthly assessment reports provided once per month (12 reports per year) Notification of newly discovered security risks Provision of portal for making inquiries	480,000 yen/year
	One time	For the applicable domain, one-time provision of assessment report	60,000 yen/case
Optional Services	Security analyst meeting	Provision of an online explanation of the assessment report content by an IIJ security analyst	89,000 yen/case
	Report translation by engineer	Translation of report to another language by IIJ security engineer	Estimated separately

• (*)The original language of reports is English. (Can be translated to other languages for a fee.)
• (*)Security analyst meetings are in English. (Please inquire about having them conducted in another language.)
• (*)Prices shown do not include tax.

See the following website for more details on the service.

• https://www.iij.ad.jp/biz/safous/assessment.html (available in Japanese only)

Making the most of the technology strength and knowledge accumulated to date, IIJ will continue with efforts to develop and provide solutions to the security issues of customers in Japan and globally.

The statements within this release contain forward-looking statements about our future plans that involve risk and uncertainty. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results.

For inquiries, contact

IIJ Corporate Communications

• +81-3-5205-6310
• +81-3-5205-6377
• press@iij.ad.jp

• (*) All company names and service names used in this press release are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.