Meet Dai Fujimoto: Building Zenity’s Next Chapter in Japan

Japan’s Ministry of Finance reports that AI adoption in large local enterprises has surged to 89%. Companies are progressively choosing to incorporate AI agents into their workflows, building with Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, and a myriad of other platforms, all living across a variety of environments with autonomy, privilege, and minimal supervision.

Zenity has worked with Japanese customers and partners from afar for some time. Today we're making the commitment local. Zenity is expanding into the Japanese market with dedicated leadership in Tokyo, a flagship event for the region's security leaders, and a presence at two of the most important security gatherings on Japan's fall calendar.

Dai Fujimoto Joins Zenity as Japan Country Manager

Dai Fujimoto has guided local enterprises in Japan through governed, secure, and confident adoption of new technologies for over two decades. Now, he’ll do the same for AI agents as companies move from experimentation to full-blown implementation. Dai spent over twenty years at NTT, Japan’s largest telecommunications carrier, and has worked since 2017 as the representative director for Japan for cybersecurity companies FireEye and SecurityScorecard.

That background matters for Zenity's customers. Dai has spent his career helping Japanese enterprises evolve into security categories that didn't exist a few years earlier, and will continue doing so in the new vulnerability class represented by AI agents. He understands both the technical bar and the trust bar that security leaders here set for a new vendor.

Japanese enterprises' AI adoption is at a genuine inflection point. According to IPA research, individual-level AI usage in Japan stands at 62.1%, actually higher than the US and Germany, yet integration into actual business processes is only at 13.1%, roughly a third of the US and German levels. In other words, Japan is about to make a rapid shift from 'individual experimentation' to 'organization-wide adoption.'

That shift is both the opportunity for Zenity and the starting point of the risk for Japanese enterprises. While AI is used mainly as a personal assistant, the blast radius of any mistake is limited. But the moment AI becomes embedded in business processes, when agents gain access to real data, make decisions, and take action, an entirely new attack surface emerges, one that traditional security thinking doesn't fully capture. External prompt injection, insider-like risk from excessive permission delegation, and the agent's own autonomous misjudgment: none of these are visible to existing identity management, endpoint security, or DLP alone.

Put differently, right now, as Japanese enterprises are poised to move into full-scale adoption, is exactly the moment to build governance and safety in from the start, not bolt it on afterward. With process integration still at around 13%, it's not too late. In fact, I believe whether we can offer a 'foundation for safe scaling' at this stage will determine the very speed of AI adoption in the Japanese market.

On top of that, Japan isn't competing in the scale race of general-purpose LLMs; it's heading toward domain-specific AI and physical AI that leverage deep frontline expertise in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Because these agents touch sensitive operational data and core processes so closely, the importance of agent governance and security here may end up being even greater than in the US. Given that context, I feel Zenity's position, enabling the safe implementation of AI agents, fits perfectly with the way the Japanese market is set to grow.

That's exactly why I believe now is the right moment for me to be doing this at Zenity.

– an excerpt from Dai Fujimoto, Japan Country Manager, Zenity

Where to Meet Dai and the Zenity Team This Year:

KaiZen: AIエージェントは、どこにいても守られる

As AI agents gain greater autonomy, privilege, and responsibility in enterprise ecosystems, security teams need guidance on how to continuously adapt their strategies to mitigate risk and enable secure deployment. On November 10, Zenity will host KaiZen at the ANA InterContinental Tokyo: a day of talks, networking, and problem-solving with Zenity’s executive leadership, trusted partners, and local leaders for cybersecurity.

Featured speakers include:

• Ben Kliger: CEO, Zenity
• Tomer Teller: VP Product Management, Zenity
• Wataru Takeishi: Cybersecurity Evangelist & Strategist, SoftBank Corp
• Toshihiko Shibahara: GM of CN Sales Division, Tokyo Electron Device
• Hideaki Nakashima: GM Cybersecurity, CTC
• Kohei Akimoto: Executive Director of Engineering, SoftBank C&S

Sessions will cover the practical questions that come up across IT, engineering, and security when organizations start building agents:

• How to safely expand the use of agents
• How to govern what agents are allowed to do
• How to enforce boundaries when agents act
• How to respond when an agent acts out of intended scope

Seats are limited and reserved for security and AI governance leaders. Register for KaiZen to secure your place.

KaiZen anchors a broader fall schedule in Tokyo. Join us in person over the next several weeks to learn where the risk sits with AI agents, and how to take action to ensure their security.

CTC Discover 2026, October 16

Zenity will exhibit at CTC Discover 2026, hosted by partners ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin-Takanawa in Tokyo on Friday, October 16. This year's theme is the pathway to AI implementation: meet us at Booth 3 in the Hokushin area!

CODE BLUE 2026, November 17 to 18

One week after KaiZen, Zenity will exhibit at CODE BLUE 2026, Japan's premier international security conference, held at Bellesalle Takadanobaba in Tokyo on November 17 and 18. On Tuesday, November 17, Zenity’s Stav Cohen will be taking the main stage to present on PleaseFix: the findings from exploitative research on a vulnerability class specific to AI agents.

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What This Means for the Japanese Enterprise

Zenity’s growth, led by Dai and supported with a packed schedule of field engagements, sends a clear sign to local security teams: agentic AI rollout does not have to come at the expense of security, governance, and risk management. Through Dai’s leadership and the guidance of a blossoming partner ecosystem, Zenity has the local resources necessary to secure agents wherever they operate in local companies.