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A Study on the Strengthening of Smart Factory Security in OT (Operational Technology) Environment (OT(Operational Technology) 환경에서 스마트팩토리 보안 강화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Young Ho Kim;Kwang-Kyu Seo
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2024
  • Major countries are trying to expand the construction of smart factories by introducing ICT such as the Internet of Things, cloud, and big data into the manufacturing sector to secure national-level manufacturing competitiveness in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. In addition, Germany is pushing for Industry 4.0 to build a fully automatic production system through the Internet of Things, and China is pushing for the expansion of smart factories to enhance the country's industrial competitiveness through Made in China 2025, Japan's intelligent manufacturing system, and the Korean government's manufacturing innovation 3.0. In this study, considering the increasing security connectivity of smart factories, we would like to identify security threats in the external connection part of smart factories and suggest security enhancement measures based on domestic and international standard security models to respond to the identified security threats. Eventually the proposed method can be applied by accurately identifying the smart factory security status, diagnosing vulnerabilities, establishing appropriate improvement plans, and expanding security strategies to respond to security threats.

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On-line Shared Platform Evaluation Framework for Advanced Persistent Threats

  • Sohn, Dongsik;Lee, Taejin;Kwak, Jin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.2610-2628
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    • 2019
  • Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are constant attacks of specific targets by hackers using intelligent methods. All current internal infrastructures are constantly subject to APT attacks created by external and unknown malware. Therefore, information security officers require a framework that can assess whether information security systems are capable of detecting and blocking APT attacks. Furthermore, an on-line evaluation of information security systems is required to cope with various malicious code attacks. A regular evaluation of the information security system is thus essential. In this paper, we propose a dynamic updated evaluation framework to improve the detection rate of internal information systems for malware that is unknown to most (over 60 %) existing static information security system evaluation methodologies using non-updated unknown malware.

Development of an Autonomous Situational Awareness Software for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Kim, Yun-Geun;Chang, Woohyuk;Kim, Kwangmin;Oh, Taegeun
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.36-44
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    • 2021
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly needed as they can replace manned aircrafts in dangerous military missions. However, because of their low autonomy, current UAVs can execute missions only under continuous operator control. To overcome this limitation, higher autonomy levels of UAVs based on autonomous situational awareness is required. In this paper, we propose an autonomous situational awareness software consisting of situation awareness management, threat recognition, threat identification, and threat space analysis to detect dynamic situational change by external threats. We implemented the proposed software in real mission computer hardware and evaluated the performance of situational awareness toward dynamic radar threats in flight simulations.

Securing C.I.A for Autonomous Vessels through the Application of VDI (VDI 적용을 통한 자율운항선박의 C.I.A 확보 방안 연구)

  • Choi, Youngryul;Baik, Namkyun
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2022
  • In the fourth industrial era, when various technologies are fused and combined, new and advanced technologies from other industries are used extensively in the maritime industry field. New security threats are also increasing along with the development of new technologies. In addition, in incorporating convergence technologies into the maritime industry, various problems, such as communication definitions and procedures between technologies and customer-customized delays, occur. In this paper, for the problems mentioned above, research results on the network configuration of safer autonomous vessels by supplementing and fusing existing solutions rather than developing new technologies are proposed. In conclusion, the entire network consists of VDI and presents additional configurations to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability, which are the three security elements. According to the composition of such a convergence network, it is intended to help prepare countermeasures to protect internal data from external threats.

Utilizing SWOT Model to Define a Strategy for the Korean Construction Companies in Preparation of the Changes in the Global Construction Market

  • Kim, HwaRang;Jang, HyounSeung
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.486-490
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    • 2015
  • SWOT model was used to develop strategies for the Korean construction firms in entering the global construction market. Literature review, official statistics survey and other research methods were utilized in order to extract internal and external environmental factors of both the firm and local area. By extracting strength, weakness, opportunity and threat factors, a total of 12 strategies were produced: SO (Strengths-Opportunities), ST (Strengths-Threats), WT (Weaknesses-Threats), and WO (Weaknesses-Opportunities). The result of the study can be utilized as a basic data in developing a strategy for the Korean construction firms to penetrate into the global construction market.

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Corruption as a Threat to Economic Security of the Country

  • Samiilenko, Halyna;Ivanova, Nataliia;Shaposhnykova, Iryna;Vasylchenko, Lidiia;Solomakha, Iryna;Povna, Svitlana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.316-322
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    • 2021
  • The problem of corruption and the spread of corruption crime today is not only one of the main social problems, but also an obstacle to the implementation of reforms in Ukraine. Given the complexity, scale and diversity of the impact of corruption, it is an undisputed threat to national security. At the state level, corruption threatens, firstly, state security as a result of its spread in public authorities and the combination of political and business spheres; secondly, in the domestic political sphere as a result of non-compliance and violation by officials of public authorities and local governments of the laws of Ukraine; thirdly, in the economic sphere as a result of the dominance of personal interests of civil servants over national ones; fourthly, in other spheres, namely, military, social, ecological, informational, foreign policy, etc. The origins of corruption are diverse and are formed not only in the country but also abroad. The current corruption threat is the result of the country's ineffective domestic and foreign anticorruption policies. Acceleration of the spread and manifestation of external corruption threats is associated with a number of unresolved foreign policy issues against the background of the development of globalization and integration processes, in particular: economic and financial dependence of the country on international financial institutions and organizations; as well as from foreign countries that pose a potential threat due to their ambitious plans to expand our country; unresolved issues regarding the international legal consolidation of borders, etc. It is noted that the current conditions for the development of state security, due to new challenges and threats, need to improve and implement new measures to prevent corruption as a negative impact of the main threats to national economic security. As a result of the study, the main measures to counter the main threats to the economic security of the state were identified.

Alliance of the Baltic States in the System of Collective Security

  • Kikste, Kaspars;Djakona, Antonina
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.189-194
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    • 2022
  • The formation of a new world order is primarily caused by new conditions and military operations on the European continent. The intensification of military-political tension led to the formation of new centers of power and gravity, which in turn led to the concentration of weapons and general militarization. Changes in the world order as a result of military conflicts and an increase in hot spots in the world, an increase in threats and the formation of centers of military gravity, the inability of existing institutions to resolve the situation lead to the need to develop new security mechanisms. Studies show that in the current situation, the countries of the Baltic countries are especially actively increasing their level of technologization of the army and militarization in general. The creation of any alliance is always conditioned by the presence of external threats. Naturally, the increase in the number of threats creates preconditions for the development of new forms of cooperation within existing military alliances. It seems obvious that due to the current situation in the context of the military conflict and military aggression of Russia in Ukraine, as well as its constant threats, including to the Baltic countries, there is a need to form a certain alliance that can protect the eastern border of Europe and form a certain border between European countries and aggressor countries. The Baltic countries are actively involved in these processes, in addition, it is the Baltic countries that can enter the new military alliance proposed by Britain, which will unite Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic countries and, possibly, Great Britain.

A Study on Development Strategy of Korean Hidden Champion Firm Utilizing the SWOT/AHP Technique (SWOT/AHP 기법을 이용한 한국형 히든챔피언 기업의 발전전략에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Youn-Kyaei;Lee, Sang-Suk
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.97-111
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    • 2013
  • This study reviews preceding research for detailed factors to establish development strategies for Korean Hidden Champion firms and classifies strategy factors into internal ones and external ones through specialists' opinions to draw strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each factor. It also sets hierarchical model to draw up a survey, distributes the survey to groups of specialists and enterprises respectively and then examines consistency ratio. Fifty-four copies of survey whose reliability on responses is secured through examining the consistency ratio are evaluated with their relative importance in factors by using SWOT/AHP technique and their order of priority is determined. Based on their results, development strategies for Korean Hidden Champion firms are established. SWOT/AHP analyses results show that external factors are with the opportunity of industry growth and the threat of intensified competition and market uncertainty and internal factors are with the strength in order of technological competence, construction competence in customer relation and marketing competence. The weakness in the lack of funds, lack of brand awareness in order. This result suggests that external environments of enterprises that more emphasis should be put on the industry growth and aggressive strategies cannot help but be adopted even in a global competition getting fiercer every day are seen more important. Then, it also seems to be thought that the technological competence including R&D and specialization, construction competence in customer relation and marketing competence should internally chosen for strategies to support strategies. The order of priority in development strategies for Korean Hidden Champion firms is drawn as; (i) aggressive S/O strategy which utilizes opportunities by taking advantage of strengths, (ii) W/O strategy which utilizes opportunities by supplementing weaknesses, (iii) diversified S/T strategy which utilizes strengths to make up for threats and (iv) defensive W/T strategy which supplements weaknesses to overcome threats.

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A Study on the Analysis of Internal and External Factors of Software Threat Elements (소프트웨어 위협 요소의 내부적·외부적 요인 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Eun Ser
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.278-283
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    • 2024
  • When implementing software, there can be side effects that pose a threat to human life. Therefore, it is necessary to measure the impact of software on safety and create alternatives to mitigate and prevent threats. To conduct a software safety assessment to measure the impact of threat factors, the following components are necessary. This paper aims to classify the threat factors of software into internal and external factors and quantitatively demonstrate the impact of these threat factors.

Verification of a Communication Method Secure against Attacks Using Convergence Hash Functions in Inter-vehicular Secure Communication (차량간 보안 통신에서 융합 해시함수를 이용하여 공격에 안전한 통신방법 검증)

  • Lee, Sang-Jun;Bae, Woo-Sik
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.297-302
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    • 2015
  • The increase in applying IT to vehicles has given birth to smart cars or connected cars. As smarts cars become connected with external network systems, threats to communication security are on the rise. With simulation test results supporting such threats to Convergence security in vehicular communication, concerns are raised over relevant vulnerabilities, while an increasing number of studies on secure vehicular communication are published. Hacking attacks against vehicles are more dangerous than other types of hacking attempts because such attacks may threaten drivers' lives and cause social instability. This paper designed a Convergence security protocol for inter-vehicle and intra-vehicle communication using a hash function, nonce, public keys, time stamps and passwords. The proposed protocol was tested with a formal verification tool, Casper/FDR, and found secure and safe against external attacks.