• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.8C
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• pp.838-848
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• 2005

Most of the national critical key infrastructure, such as power, piped gas and water supply facilities, or the high-speed railroad, is run on the SCADA system. Recently, concerns have been raised about the possibility of these facilities being attacked by cyber terrorists, hacking, or viruses. Thus, it is time to adopt the relevant security management techniques. This paper attempts to propose such security management techniques, including information protection measures and troubleshooting, based on a risk analysis process concerning assets, threats/vulnerability, and hazards, and to examine the security management status of critical key infrastructure in the U.S. and Japan.

• IE interfaces
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.177-185
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• 2007

e-Business in healthcare sector has been called e-Health, which is evolving into u-Health with advances of ubiquitous technologies. Seamless information sharing among health organizations is being discussed in many nations including USA, UK, Australia and Korea. Efforts for establishing the electronic health record (EHR) system and a nation-wide information sharing environment are called NHII (National Health Information Infrastructure) initiatives. With the advent of u-Health and progress of health information systems, information security issues in healthcare sector have become a very significant problem. In this paper, we analyze several issues on health information security occurring in u-Health environment and develop an information security standard for protecting health information. It is expected that the standard proposed in this work could be established as a national standard after sufficient reviews by information security experts, stakeholders in healthcare sector, and health professionals. Health organizations can establish comprehensive information security systems and protect health information more effectively using the standard. The result of this paper also contributes to relieving worries about privacy and security of individually identifiable health information brought by NHII implementation and u-Health systems.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.73-78
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• 2017

Recently, a number of foreign electric power companies including domestic Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) have actively engaged in the construction of a power grid with the concept of a smart grid. The Smart grid is a technology that increases the efficiency of the power by converging the information network with the power grid. It can maximize the energy efficiency through the two-way communication between the utility and the consumer. However, as the power grid converges with the information and communication network, security threats are increasing more than existing power grids. Due to the nature of the power grid, the damage caused by security threats is not only personal privacy but also economic loss of society. So smart grid becomes the target of hackers. In this paper, we discuss security vulnerabilities of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which is a core technology of smart grid construction, and the corresponding security technologies to prevent security damage of smart grid.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.129-134
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• 2022

A smart platform is defined as an evolved platform that realizes physical and virtual space into a hyper-connected environment by combining the existing platform and advanced IT technology. The hyper-connection that is the connection between information and information, infrastructure and infrastructure, infrastructure and information, or space and service, enables the realization and provision of high-quality services that significantly change the quality of life and environment of users. In addition, it is providing everyone with the effect of significantly improving the social safety net and personal health management level by implementing smart government and smart healthcare. A lot of information produced and consumed in these processes can act as a factor threatening the basic rights of the public and individuals by the informations themselves or through big data analysis. In particular, as the smart platform as a core function that forms the ecosystem of a smart city is naturally and continuously expanded, it faces a huge security burden in data processing and network operation. In this paper, platform components as core functions of smart city and appropriate security threats and countermeasures are studied.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.416-422
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• 2011

Smart grid is the next generation intelligent power grid that combines the existing electric power infrastructure and information infrastructure. It can optimize the energy efficiency in both directions, suppliers and power consumers to exchange information in real time. In smart grid environments, with existing network security threats due to the smart grid characteristics, there are additional security threats. In this paper, we propose a security mechanism that provides mutual authentication and key agreement between a remote user and the device. The proposed mechanism has some advantages that provides secure mutual authentication and key agreement and secure against a replay attack and impersonation attacks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.165-169
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• 2011

저탄소 녹색성장 정책의 일환으로 추진되는 Smart Grid 사업은, 전력인프라와 IT인프라가 융합 되면서 지능화된 전기 에너지의 효율성 향상을 목적으로 전기망 내 송배전을 실시간으로 관리할 수 있게 운영하는 지능형 전기망이다. 하지만 기존의 인터넷망과 IT 통신 인프라와 융합되면서 Smart Grid 인프라에서도 IT보안 취약점 문제가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 Smart Grid 인프라를 요소별로 분석한다. 그리고 Smart Grid 인프라의 보안성 분석을 통하여 보안의 취약점을 가져 올 수 있는 Smart Grid에 대한 보안 이슈를 분석한다. 그리고 Smart Grid 보안성 기준에 따른 보안기술정책을 연구하고, 보안 표준과 보안 방안을 제시한다. 본 연구를 통하여 안전한 Smart Grid 보안기술정책을 위한 법 제정에 기초자료가 될 것이다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.77-83
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• 2004

According as information society has been raised, many countries of the world have taken a lot of interests in e-government implementation. The several guidance countries already have offered people various administrative service and popular enmity service in the Internet conveniently People can use e-government service more conveniently by the Internet, but important personal information or state secret can be leaked in the Internet. Because of these security vulnerabilities, a lot of countries are constructing security infrastructure that can protect personal information. In this paper, we examine e-government construction trends of the several guidance countries, and propose security considerations to provide safe and reliable e-government service.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.3280-3298
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• 2019

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have become increasingly significant in intelligent transportation systems, they play a great role in improving traffic safety and efficiency. In the deployment of intelligent VANETs, intelligent vehicles can efficiently exchange important or urgent traffic information and make driving decisions. Meanwhile, secure data communication and vehicle's identity privacy have been highlighted. To cope with these security issues, in this paper, we construct an efficient anonymous authentication scheme with secure communication in intelligent VANETs. Combing the ElGamal encryption technique with a modified Schnorr signature technique, the proposed scheme provides secure anonymous authentication process for encrypted message in the vehicle-to-infrastructure communication model, and achieves identity privacy, forward security, and reply attack resistance simultaneously. Moreover, except the trusted authority (TA), any outside entity cannot trace the real identity of an intelligent vehicle. The proposed scheme is designed on an identity-based system, which can remove the costs of establishing public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificates management. Compared with existing authentication schemes, the proposed scheme is much more practical in intelligent VANETs.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.673-681
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• 2011

Among the network information services combined with a number of security technologies and required security policies, Infrastructure as a Service, a hardware plat-form service of Cloud Computing, has been provided since 2011. It is more or less similar to the existing central concentration method services, in terms of the specifications and technical aspects for given hardware category, but it is entirely different from them in that it overcomes the spatial limitations of specific network and targets the public network. Information security technology has also been prospering so that it could ensure the stability of offered hardware plat-forms. As currently supported hardware, Internet Data Center has been provided by virtualizing the previously offered servers and discs (backup discs), but the hardware plat-forms offered are somewhat limited. Meanwhile, the areas of security fields for offered services are confined to the center or include the TCP/IP-based SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for the public network connected with clients, which shows that microscopic access security policies have been used. Therefore, this study was aimed to provide a realistic security mechanism for realizing defense policy, by expanding service areas into security devices and suggesting Diskless and Stateless security policy based high-speed synchronous network infrastructure.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.55-70
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• 2019

It is essential to consider the relationships between each component in the communication infrastructure in order to build and optimize the infrastructure. In this paper, based on the major factors to consider for the optimized communication infrastructure, we propose an enhanced MACSec-based deployment mechanism for communication infrastructure. The proposed MACSec mechanism can replace the IPSec without the additional devices and redesign of the communication infrastructure. In addition, we evaluate the performance of MACSec and IPSec in terms of the major factors such as message overhead, encryption processing, and host mobility. According to the evaluation results, we can say that MACSec is superior to IPSec with regard to mobility as well as hop delay and message overhead.