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Digital Agency's GSS incident is a practical signal for foreign technology vendors: Japan public-sector trust depends on proving access control, vulnerability management, partner oversight, and incident readiness before the sale.
Japan's Digital Agency has posted the final report of its advisory work on agile development and open source in information-system procurement. For foreign GovTech, SaaS, cloud, systems integration, and OSS support companies, the signal is practical: Japan's public-sector software market is becoming a delivery-model test, not only a product-capability test.