Masato Terada is the Technology and Coordination Designer for Hitachi Incident Response Team (HIRT), the leader in vulnerability handling and vulnerability database throughout their careers. Also he is the Chief Researcher at Yokohama Research Laboratory, Hitachi. After launching HIRT activities in 1998, he launched a research site, a predecessor of JVN: Japan Vulnerability Notes (http://jvn.jp/) in 2002 and acted as a point of contact for HIRT in order to promote external CSIRT activities, including participation in FIRST, an international CSIRT organization in 2005.
Since 2004, he has worked as a visiting researcher at the Security Center, Information - Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (ipa.go.jp), JVN associate staff at JPCERT Coordination Center (jpcert.or.jp) for extending JVN activities. Also he has been with a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chuo University since 2004, vice chief of the steering committee for the Nippon CSIRT Association since 2007 and Telecom ISAC a steering committee member since 2009.
