• Korean Security Journal
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• no.49
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• pp.187-214
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• 2016

In the mordern society, the reliance on the cyber domain and the cyber connectivity has been increasingly strengthened. Due to this phenomenon, the cyberterror against critical infrastructures and state organs might lead to fatal consequences. Lately, North Korea's cyberattacks against South Korea's national organizations and financial computer networks are becoming more and more intelligent and sophisticated. The cyberattacks against such critical infrastructures have caused enormous economic loss and social disorder. This paper is designed to examine comparatively the cyberterror related laws and organizations of the advanced countries such as U.S. and U.K. and to draw implications. Although those countries are under different institutional and cultural backgrounds with varying security envrionments, they are identically pursuing measures by establishing government-wide counterterror system for coordination and cooperation. They are also commonly focusing upon creating new organizations equipped with new system and upon enhancing intelligence performance and devising punishment regulations. Korea is lack of framework laws regulating cyber security, having only scattered individual laws. Since such legal base is far from efficient counterterror activities, it is necessary that the legal and policy response of the advanced countries should be closely studied for selective introduction. That will eventually lead to legislation of cyber security law. With such legislation on hand, it is subsequently required to strengthen crisis management for prevention of cyberterror and to create joint response team, cooperating with private organizations.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.3_2
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• pp.33-42
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• 2016

While evolving information-oriented society provides a lot of benefits to the human life, new types of threats have been increasing. Particularly, cyber terrorism, happen on the network that is composed of a computer system and information communication network, and the mean and scale of damage has reached a serious level. In other words, it is hard to locate cyber terror since it occurs in the virtual space, not in the real world, so identifying "Who is attacking?" (Non-visibility, non-formulas), or "Where the attack takes place?" (trans-nation) are hard. Hackers, individuals or even a small group of people, who carried out the cyber terror are posing new threats that could intimidate national security and the pace and magnitude of threats keep evolving. Scale and capability of North Korea's cyber terrorism are assessed as world-class level. Recently, North Korea is focusing on strengthen their cyber terrorism force. So improving a response system for cyber terror is a key necessity as North Korea's has emerged as a direct threat to South Korean security. Therefore, Korea has to redeem both legal and institutional systems immediately to perform as a unified control tower for preemptive response to cyber terrors arise from North Korea and neighboring countries.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.165-171
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• 2009

From the late 20th century, rapidly progressing information communication technology and spreading Internet all over the world cause many reverse functions when there is a conversion into the new information society. One of them is cyber terrorism as cyber crime. Cyber terrorism gradually has had a serious problem in the national security as well as the domestic aspects. Therefore, this study looked into the present condition of cyber terrorism, discussed its prospect, and sought the efficient national countermeasure methods against cyber terrorism by comparing other countries' countermeasure systems currently.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.20
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• pp.271-289
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• 2009

In e-terrorism, terrorists use cyber spaces including the internet in order to strike terror into the heart of a nation. It is revealed that recently happening terror cases use cyber spaces as a strategic tool. This research aims to investigate efficient countermeasures against various types of terror attacks made by terrorists and their cyber networking, in order to contribute to the prevention of terrors from a modern standpoint. Based on the results of the investigation, relevant problems are suggested such that terrors are not cases happening in a specific country only because they take place in cyber spaces, that hacking incidents frequently happen in Korea which is used as a footstool by foreign hackers, and that Korea has poor professional security manpower and foundational facilities in comparison with other advanced countries. Answers to the problems include cultivating cyber information manpower to cope with e-terrorism, making an appropriate budget, setting up networks to integrate and systematize anti-e-terrorism organizations, and intensifying the collection of information of cyber attacks and the analysis of the information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.363-365
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• 2014

Internet baking, e-commerce, business processing, etc on smartphone handing could be possible in present days. Ambiguity between cyber and real life has made vulnerability on infrastructure, Gov't Service and National security by cyber terrorism. Especially, Lots of Infrastructure and Gov't Service based on Information Technology were exposed by Cyber terror. Legal system should be improved to keep from these threats. This paper proposed needs of cyber legal system by analyzing proposed cyber related code on Korean National Assembly, issue on Cyber Control Tower, National Cyber Security Industry and Human resource.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.21-30
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• 2002

정보전의 개념이 도입된 90년대 중반이후 세계 각 국에서는 사이버 공간을 이용한 다양한 사이버 위협을 대처하기 위한 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 그러나, 9ㆍ11 테러를 겪으면서 미국을 비롯한 각 국에서는 사이버공간을 이용한 사이버테러 및 사이버전이 국가안위를 위태롭게 할 수 있다는 인식하에 기존 보안정책을 강화하거나 새로운 보안정책을 계획하거나 시행하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 미국, 일본 등을 중심으로 한 사이버 공간의 안전성 확보를 위한 최근의 노력을 소개하고자 하며, 우리나라의 사이버 공간 안전성 확보를 위한 참고자료로 활용되었으면 한다.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.9
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• pp.237-260
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• 2005

Development of IT technology as well as arrival of information-oriented society raise the curtain of 'the era of Ubiquitous Computing', implying accessing computers beyond boundary of time and space. In this era, it is expected that IT paradigms and life-styles would be transformed immensely above the experiences of 20th century. However, improvement of technology summons a new risk of cyber terrorism which have not been in the past. Thus, it is urgent to prepare for the threats in the national level. This paper point out five major threats relating to 'the security in the era of Ubiquitous Computing'. : First, spread of threats in connection with BcN establishment, second, vulnerable information-security for wireless communication, third, leakage of private information, fourth, cyber terror and deterioration of security, fifth, security problems of Korea including the drain of military information and solutions in the views of organization, personnel, technology and budget, comparing with other countries.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.18
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• pp.169-190
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• 2009

Today, the rapid advance of scientific technologies has brought about fundamental changes to the types and levels of terrorism while the war against the world more than one thousand small and big terrorists and crime organizations has already begun. A method highly likely to be employed by terrorist groups that are using 21st Century state of the art technology is cyber terrorism. In many instances, things that you could only imagine in reality could be made possible in the cyber space. An easy example would be to randomly alter a letter in the blood type of a terrorism subject in the health care data system, which could inflict harm to subjects and impact the overturning of the opponent's system or regime. The CIH Virus Crisis which occurred on April 26, 1999 had significant implications in various aspects. A virus program made of just a few lines by Taiwanese college students without any specific objective ended up spreading widely throughout the Internet, causing damage to 30,000 PCs in Korea and over 2 billion won in monetary damages in repairs and data recovery. Despite of such risks of cyber terrorism, a great number of Korean sites are employing loose security measures. In fact, there are many cases where a company with millions of subscribers has very slackened security systems. A nationwide preparation for cyber terrorism is called for. In this context, this research will analyze the current status of Korea's cyber security systems and its laws from a policy perspective, and move on to propose improvement strategies. This research suggests the following solutions. First, the National Cyber Security Management Act should be passed to have its effectiveness as the national cyber security management regulation. With the Act's establishment, a more efficient and proactive response to cyber security management will be made possible within a nationwide cyber security framework, and define its relationship with other related laws. The newly passed National Cyber Security Management Act will eliminate inefficiencies that are caused by functional redundancies dispersed across individual sectors in current legislation. Second, to ensure efficient nationwide cyber security management, national cyber security standards and models should be proposed; while at the same time a national cyber security management organizational structure should be established to implement national cyber security policies at each government-agencies and social-components. The National Cyber Security Center must serve as the comprehensive collection, analysis and processing point for national cyber crisis related information, oversee each government agency, and build collaborative relations with the private sector. Also, national and comprehensive response system in which both the private and public sectors participate should be set up, for advance detection and prevention of cyber crisis risks and for a consolidated and timely response using national resources in times of crisis.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 2005

사이버 공간이라는 새로운 국가 영역이 창조되었고, 고 영역에서의 각종활동이 국내는 물론 국제사회의 경쟁력에서 가장 중요한 국가 영역이 되고 있다. 반면에 사이버 공간에서의 침해사고 내지는 공격행위가 사이버 공간에서의 활동을 방해하고 사회의 혼란을 초래할 뿐 아니라 사이버 공간을 통해 국가 안보를 위협하는 테러, 정보전 양상이 뚜렷하게 증가하고 있다. 또 민주화와 인터넷의 개방 구조로 개인과 기업, 조직의 정보보호와 기밀 보호의 요구가 높아지고 있다. 이를 보호하고 국가 안보를 강화하는 사이버 공간의 안보체계를 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.41-42
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• 2023

항공편과 승객의 흐름을 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 디지털 시스템에 대한 의존도 증가와 승객용 기내 와이파이 서비스 등으로 인해 민간항공의 사이버 보안 취약성은 매년 증가하고 있는데 비해 공항에 대한 무장 공격, 항공기에 폭발물 설치 및 납치와 같은 전통적인 테러에 맞춰 마련된 항공보안 관련 국제협약은 사이버 위협에 직접적으로 적용하기 어렵다는 문제를 갖고 있다. 본 연구는 민간항공에 대한 사이버 공격의 예방 및 기소와 관련된 국제협약의 적정성을 검토한 후, 사이버 위협 대응을 위한 기존 국제협약 체계, 잠재적 차이 해석 등을 중점적으로 분석하여 민간항공의 안전을 위협하는 불법방해행위로부터 중요정보 및 시스템을 보호하는 항공 사이버 보안 국제표준 마련 및 이행 촉진을 강조하고자 한다.