• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2024

Security assessment is an indispensable process for a secure network, and appropriate performance indicators must be present to manage risks. The most widely used quantitative indicator is CVSS. CVSS has a problem that it cannot consider context in terms of subjectivity, complexity of interpretation, and security risks. To compensate for these problems, we propose indicators that itemize and quantify four things: attackers, threats, responses, and assets, taking into account the security context of ISO/IEC 15408 documents. Vulnerabilities discovered through network scanning can be mapped to MITREATT&CK's technology by the connection between weaknesses and attack patterns (CAPEC). We use MITREATT&CK's Groups, Tactic, and Mitigations to produce consistent and intuitive scores. Accordingly, it is expected that security evaluation managers will have a positive impact on strengthening security such as corporate networks by expanding the range of choices among security indicators from various perspectives.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.15-20
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• 2012

최근 고도의 지능적인 대량 공격이 지속적으로 발생하고 있으며, 다형성 악성코드 공격 증가로 인하여 개인과 기업 및 국가 기반시설까지 사이버위협에 노출되고 있다. 현재, 국가차원의 대응센터에서는 이러한 위협 대응을 위해 공격 위험도를 CVSS(Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 취약점 등급시스템으로 점수화하여 단계적으로 경보를 발령한다. 하지만 현재의 경보발령 체계가 공격이 이루어진 후 사후 대책으로 제공되고 있어, 공격발생 전에 공격 징후를 포착하거나 공격량 예측과 같은 전역 네트워크 차원의 위협에 대한 대응 기술은 미비하다. 본 논문에서는 최근 봇넷 기반의 공격들이 많아지고 있는 상황에서 봇넷을 네트워크 위협 전조증상으로 정의하고, NCSC(National Cyber Security Center), KrCERT와 같은 국가기관의 경보등급 산정체계를 기반으로 전역차원의 예 경보 발령 및 공격량 예측 시스템에 대해 연구한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.873-883
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• 2013

Security vulnerability quantification is the method that identify potential vulnerabilities by scoring vulnerabilities themselves and their countermeasures. However, due to the structural feature of smart grid system, it is difficult to apply existing security threat evaluation schemes. In this paper, we propose a network model to evaluate smartgrid security threat for AMI and derive attack scenarios. Additionally, we show that the result of security threat evaluation for proposed network model and attack scenario by applying MTTC scheme.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.77-83
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• 2021

As Open Source Software(OSS) recently invigorates, many companies actively use the OSSes in their business software. With such OSS invigoration, our web application is developed in order to provide the safety in using the OSSes, and update the information on the new vulnerabilities and the patches at all times by crawling the web pages of the relevant OSS home pages and the managing organizations of the vulnerabilities. By providing the updated information, our application helps the OSS users and developers to be aware of such security issues, and gives them to work in the safer environment from security risks. In addition, our application can be used as a security platform to greatly contribute to preventing potential security incidents not only for companies but also for individual developers.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.354-357
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• 2021

Software vulnerabilities are becoming more and more increasing, their role is to harm the computer systems of companies, governmental organizations and agencies. The main objective of this paper is to propose a method that will cluster future software vulnerabilities that may spread. This method is developed by combining the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), the Elbow procedure and the Kmeans Algorithm. A simulation was done on a dataset of 15713 observations. This simulation allowed us to identify families of future vulnerabilities. This model was evaluated using the silhouette index.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.191-200
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• 2022

These days, businesses, in both online and offline, have started accepting cryptocurrencies as payment methods. Even in countries like El Salvador, cryptocurrencies are recognized as fiat currencies. Meanwhile, publicly known, but not patched software vulnerabilities are security threats to not only software users but also to our society in general. As the status of cryptocurrencies has gradually increased, the impact of security vulnerabilities related to cryptocurrencies on our society has increased as well. In this paper, we first analyze vulnerabilities from the two major cryptocurrency vendors of Bitcoin and Ethereum in a quantitative manner with the respect to the CVSS, to see how the vulnerabilities are roughly structured in those systems. Then we introduce a modified AML vulnerability discovery model for the vulnerability datasets from the two vendors, after showing the original AML dose not accurately represent the vulnerability discovery trends on the datasets. The analysis shows that the modified model performs better than the original AML model for the vulnerability datasets from the major cryptocurrencies.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.489-499
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• 2022

Recently, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been increasing exponentially. These IoT devices are directly connected to the internet to exchange information. IoT devices are becoming smaller and lighter. However, security measures are not taken in a timely manner compared to the security vulnerabilities of IoT devices. This is often the case when the security patches cannot be applied to the device because the security patches are not adequately applied or there is no patch function. Thus, security vulnerabilities continue to exist, and security incidents continue to increase. In this study, we classified and analyzed the most common security vulnerabilities for IoT devices and identify the essential vulnerabilities of IoT devices that should be considered for security when producing IoT devices. This paper will contribute to reducing the occurrence of security vulnerabilities in companies that produce IoT devices. Additionally, companies can identify vulnerabilities that frequently occur in IoT devices and take preemptive measures.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.193-206
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• 2023

In recent years, and with the increased adoption of digital transformation and spending long hours in front of these devices, clinicians have observed that the prolonged use of visual display units (VDUs) can result in a certain symptom complex, which has been defined as computer vision syndrome (CVS). This syndrome has been affected by many causes, such as light refractive errors, poor computer design, workplace ergonomics, and a highly demanding visual task. This research focuses on eliminating one of CVSs, which is the eye dry syndrome caused by infrequent eye blink rate while using a smart device for a long time. This research attempt to find a limitation on the current tools. In addition, exploring the other use cases to utilize the solution based on each vertical and needs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.284-287
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• 2021

4차 산업혁명으로 인해 제조산업에 인공지능, 빅데이터와 같은 ICT 기술을 활용한 스마트팩토리의 제조 공정 자동화 및 장치 고도화 연구가 진행되고 있다. 제조 공정 자동화를 위해 스마트팩토리의 각 계층별 장치들이 유기적으로 연결되고 있으며, 이로 인해 발생 가능한 보안위협도 증가하고 있다. 스마트팩토리에서는 SIEM 등의 장비가 보안위협 데이터를 수집·분석·시각화하여 대응하고 있다. 보안위협 데이터 시각화에는 그리드 뷰, 피벗 뷰, 그래프, 차트, 테이블을 활용한 대시보드 형태로 제공하고 있지만, 이는 스마트팩토리 전 계층의 보안위협 데이터 확인에 대한 가시성이 부족하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 스마트팩토리 보안위협 데이터를 CVSS 점수 기반의 Likelihood와 보안위협 데이터 기반의 Impact를 활용하여 위험도를 도출하고, 히트맵 기반 스마트팩토리 보안위협 데이터 시각화 모델을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.1179-1189
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• 2019

Cyber security evaluation is a series of processes that estimate the level of risk of assets and systems through asset analysis, threat analysis and vulnerability analysis and apply appropriate security measures. In order to prepare for increasing cyber attacks, systematic cyber security evaluation is required. Various indicators for measuring cyber security level such as CWSS and CVSS have been developed, but the quantitative method to apply appropriate security measures according to the risk priority through the standardized security evaluation result is insufficient. It is needed that an Scoring system taking into consideration the characteristics of the target assets, the applied environment, and the impact on the assets. In this paper, we propose a quantitative risk assessment model based on the analysis of existing cyber security scoring system and a method for quantification of assessment factors to apply to the established model. The level of qualitative attribute elements required for cyber security evaluation is expressed as a value through security requirement weight by AHP, threat influence, and vulnerability element applying probability. It is expected that the standardized cyber security evaluation system will be established by supplementing the limitations of the quantitative method of applying the statistical data through the proposed method.