• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.1392-1397
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• 2018

Nuclear power plants(NPPs) are protected as core facilities managed by major countries. Applying general IT technology to facilities of NPPs, the proportion of utilizing the digitized resources for the rest of the assets except for the existing installed analog type operating resources is increasing. Using the network to control the IT assets of NPPs can provide significant benefits, but the potential vulnerability of existing IT resources can lead to significant cyber security breaches that threaten the entire NPPs. In this paper, we analyze the nuclear cyber security vulnerability regulatory requirements, characteristics of existing vulnerability scanners and their requirements and investigate commercial and free vulnerability scanners. Based on the proposed application method, we can improve the efficiency of checking the network security vulnerability of NPPs when applying vulnerability scanner to NPPs.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.97-109
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• 2003

As the importance and the need for network security is increased, many organization uses the various security systems. They enable to construct the consistent integrated security environment by sharing the vulnerable information among firewall, intrusion detection system, and vulnerable scanner. And Policy-based network provides a means by which the management process can be simplified and largely automated. In this article we build a foundation of policy-based network modeling environment. The procedure and structure for policy rule induction from vulnerabilities stored in SVDB (Simulation based Vulnerability Data Based) is conducted. It also transforms the policy rules into PCIM (Policy Core Information Model).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.111-122
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• 2002

Malicious attackers generally attempt to intrude the target systems by taking advantage of existing system vulnerabilities and executing readily available code designed to exploit blown vulnerabilities. To the network security administrators, the rat and minimal step in providing adequate network security is to identify existing system vulnerabilities and patch them as soon as possible. Network-based vulnerability analysis scanners (NVAS), although widely used by network security engineers, have shortcomings in that they depend on limited information that is available and generally do not have access to hast-specific information. Host-based vulnerability analysis scanner (HVAS) can serve as an effective complement to NVAS. However, implementations of HVAS differ from one platform to another and from one version to another. Therefore, to security engineers who often have to maintain a large number of heterogeneous network of hosts, it is impractical to develop and manage a large number of HVAS. In this paper, we propose an agent-based architecture named ISMAEL and describe its prototype implementation. Manager process provides various agent processes with descriptiom on vulnerabilities to check, and an agent process automatically generates, compiles, and executes an Java code to determine if the target system is vulnerable or not. The result is sent back to the manager process, and data exchange occurs in % format. Such architecture provides maximal portability when managing a group of heterogeneous hosts and vulnerability database needs to be kept current because the manager process need not be modified, and much of agent process remains unchanged. We have applied the prototype implementation of ISMAEL and found it to be effective.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 2024

Attackers tend to use similar vulnerabilities when finding their next target IT assets. They also continuously search for new attack targets. Therefore, it is essential to find the potential targets of attackers in advance. Our method proposes a novel approach for efficient vulnerable asset management and zero-day response. In this paper, we propose the ability to detect the IT assets that are potentially infected by the recently discovered vulnerability based on clustering and similarity results. As the experiment results, 86% of all collected assets are clustered within the same clustering. In addition, as a result of conducting a similarity calculation experiment by randomly selecting vulnerable assets, assets using the same OS and service were listed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.295-310
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• 2014

DCS (Distributed Control System), the main control system of power plants, is an automated system for enhancing operational efficiency by monitoring, tuning and real-time operation. DCS is becoming more intelligent and open systems as Information technology are evolving. In addition, there are a large amount of investment to enable proactive facility management, maintenance and risk management through the predictive diagnostics. However, new upcoming weaponized malware, such as Stuxnet designed for disrupting industrial control system(ICS), become new threat to the main control system of the power plant. Even though these systems are not connected with any other outside network. The main control systems used in the power plant usually have been used for more than 10 years. Also, this system requires the extremely high availability (rapid recovery and low failure frequency). Therefore, installing updates including security patches is not easy. Even more, in some cases, installing security updates can break the warranty by the vendor's policy. If DCS is exposed a potential vulnerability, serious concerns are to be expected. In this paper, we conduct the penetration test by using NESSUS, a general-purpose vulnerability scanner under the simulated environment configured with the Ovation version 1.5. From this result, we suggest a log analysis method to detect the security infringement and react the incident effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.115-125
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• 2003

As Web services are generally open for external uses and not filtered by Firewall, these result in attacker's target. Web attacks which exploit vulnerable web-applications and malicious users' requests cause economical and social problems. In this paper, we are modelling general web service usages based on user-web-session and detect anomal usages with Bayesian estimation method. Finally we propose SAD(Session Anomaly Detection) for detection unknown web attacks. To evaluate SAD, we made an experiment on attack simulation with web vulnerability scanner, whisker. The results show that the detection rate of SAD is over 90%, which is influenced by several features such as size of window or training set, detection filter method and web topology.