The Kyoto Shimbun reported on an industry-academia collaboration between the Kyoto College of GIS (KCGI) and the Cyber Kyoto Laboratory (CKL), which manages and operates the .kyoto website, together with iMatrix, a developer and seller of information security products (West Japan Office: Kyoto City), and Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc.This project, which aims to develop new information security technology for companies, was supported by Kyoto Prefecture and Kyoto Industrial 21 Foundation for the Promotion of Industry-Academia Collaboration for Regional Industrial Development.CKL and the two companies have jointly developed Kyoto Security, a system that stops phishing sites from causing damage at the water's edge.This is a new technology that blocks connections when a user is about to be directed to a malicious site, and has the advantage of not requiring the installation of special software.Amid growing interest in information security in response to the recent spate of cyber crimes, CKL was featured in the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper on September 9, 2017, and was able to widely promote the results of the industry-academia collaboration project in which CKL was also involved to society.
