Thoughts were fleshed out on the basis of the IT strategy in place in other areas such as access management, application development and the management of externally procured IT services. Thus, protection against increasingly sophisticated IT threats is and remains a never-ending task.
The calendar-based feature was considered to be essential to gain the confidence of the markets and the public in both the Bank’s intention and the possibility  6  In addition, the Bank will continue the purchases of CP and corporate bonds until their amounts outstanding reach 2.2 trillion yen and 3.2 trillion yen, respectively, by end-2013. Thereafter it will maintain those amounts outstanding.