• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

As the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution has progressed and the information and communication technologies have developed dramatically, the cyber threats will gradually become more intelligent and sophisticated. Therefore, in order to take systematic and prompt action in case of an accident while preparing measures against the threat, the role of intelligence agency is important. However, Korea is having difficulty in responding to the threats due to the lack of support for the national cybersecurity bill or the amendment bill of the National Intelligence Service. In this paper, I examine the cybersecurity function of the intelligence agency, the recent debate trends, and implications for the role of intelligence agency in our current situation. And then I intend to suggest some measures such as concentration on information gathering and analysis, enhancement of cyber threat prediction and response capacity, and strengthening of legal basis as a way to establish the role of intelligence agency for reinforcement of cybersecurity performance system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3420-3436
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• 2020

Due to the increasing number of malicious software (also known as malware), methods for sharing threat information are being studied by various organizations. The Malware Attribute Enumeration and Characterization (MAEC) format of malware is created by analysts, converted to Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX), and distributed by using Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII) protocol. Currently, when sharing malware analysis results, analysts have to manually input them into MAEC. Not many analysis results are shared publicly. In this paper, we propose an automated MAEC conversion technique for sharing analysis results of malicious Android applications. Upon continuous research and study of various static and dynamic analysis techniques of Android Applications, we developed a conversion tool by classifying parts that can be converted automatically through MAEC standard analysis, and parts that can be entered manually by analysts. Also using MAEC-to-STIX conversion, we have discovered that the MAEC file can be converted into STIX. Although other researches have been conducted on automatic conversion techniques of MAEC, they were limited to Windows and Linux only. In further verification of the conversion rate, we confirmed that analysts could improve the efficiency of analysis and establish a faster sharing system to cope with various Android malware using our proposed technique.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.865-889
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• 2019

The need for cyber resilience is increasingly important in our technology-dependent society where computing devices and data have been, and will continue to be, the target of cyber-attackers, particularly advanced persistent threat (APT) and nation-state/sponsored actors. APT and nation-state/sponsored actors tend to be more sophisticated, having access to significantly more resources and time to facilitate their attacks, which in most cases are not financially driven (unlike typical cyber-criminals). For example, such threat actors often utilize a broad range of attack vectors, cyber and/or physical, and constantly evolve their attack tactics. Thus, having up-to-date and detailed information of APT's tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) facilitates the design of effective defense strategies as the focus of this paper. Specifically, we posit the importance of taxonomies in categorizing cyber-attacks. Note, however, that existing information about APT attack campaigns is fragmented across practitioner, government (including intelligence/classified), and academic publications, and existing taxonomies generally have a narrow scope (e.g., to a limited number of APT campaigns). Therefore, in this paper, we leverage the Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) model to "decompose" any complex attack and identify the relevant characteristics of such attacks. We then comprehensively analyze more than 40 APT campaigns disclosed before 2018 to build our taxonomy. Such taxonomy can facilitate incident response and cyber threat hunting by aiding in understanding of the potential attacks to organizations as well as which attacks may surface. In addition, the taxonomy can allow national security and intelligence agencies and businesses to share their analysis of ongoing, sensitive APT campaigns without the need to disclose detailed information about the campaigns. It can also notify future security policies and mitigation strategy formulation.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.216-222
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• 2021

COVID-19 pandemic brings attentions to the nonmilitary and transnational non-traditonal security threats, as the scales of such damage by these threats are beyond expectation. The Republic of Korea Army tries to forecast non-traditional security threat which may be occurred in Korean peninsula by using collective intelligence platform. In coming years, climate change, social changes and technology development caused by the 4th industrial revolution will diversify non-traditional security threat. Considering urbanization, internet distribution rate, and geopolitical location where atmosphere from continent and ocean meet, Korea would may face the most lethal ones compared to those of other countries may face. Therefore, to predict such threats in pangovernment scale using collective intelligence platforms which embrace civil, public, military, industry, academy and research center is the most important than anything.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.75-80
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• 2019

2018년까지 알려진 표적공격 그룹은 꾸준히 증가하여 현재 155개로 2016년 대비 39개가 증가하였고, 침해사고의 평균 체류시간(dwell-time)은 2016년 172일에서 2018년 204일로 32일이 증가하였다. 점점 다양해지고 심화되고 있는 APT(Advanced Persistent Threat)공격에 대응하기 위하여 국내외 기업들의 사이버 위협 인텔리전스(CTI; Cyber Threat Intelligence) 활용이 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 현재 KISA에서는 글로벌 동향에 발맞춰 CTI를 활용할 수 있는 시스템을 개발 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 CTI 활용을 위한 OSINT(Open Source Intelligence)기반 사이버 위협 정보 수집 및 연관관계 표현 시스템을 소개하고자 한다.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.8
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• pp.127-153
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• 2004

On Study is to presidential security service in Korea and U.S Secret Service. U.S Secret Service give emphasis a right of a people. This become the center of attention that Special Agent enforced comprehensive authority with Law enforcement, intelligence, security. Presidential security service in Korea emphasis a threat of North Korea in the past. but recent circumstances changed a threat of terrorism based Islamic Fundamentalism and emphasis a right of a people. You can't overemphasize the value of this point.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.807-816
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• 2018

Threat hunting is defined as a process of proactively and iteratively searching through networks to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions. The main concept of threat hunting is to find out weak points and remedy them before actual cyber threat has occurred. And HMM(Hunting Maturity Matrix) is suggested to evolve hunting processes with five levels, therefore, CSOC(Cyber Security Operations Center) can refer HMM how to make them safer from complicated and organized cyber attacks. We are developing a system for cyber situation awareness system with pro-active threat hunting process called unMazeTM. With this unMaze, it can be upgraded CSOC's HMM level from initial level to basic level. CSOC with unMaze do threat hunting process not only detecting existing cyber equipment post-actively, but also proactively detecting cyber threat by fusing and analyzing cyber asset data and threat intelligence.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 2022

With the innovative development of ICT technology, hacking techniques of hackers are also evolving into sophisticated and intelligent hacking techniques. Threat detection research to counter these cyber threats was mainly conducted in a passive way through hacking damage investigation and analysis, but recently, the importance of cyber threat information collection and analysis is increasing. A bot-type automation program is a rather active method of extracting malicious code by visiting a website to collect threat information or detect threats. However, this method also has a limitation in that it cannot prevent hacking damage because it is a method to identify hacking damage because malicious code has already been distributed or after being hacked. Therefore, to overcome these limitations, we propose a model that detects actual threats by acquiring and analyzing threat information while identifying and managing cyber bases. This model is an active and proactive method of collecting threat information or detecting threats outside the boundary such as a firewall. We designed a model for detecting threats using cyber strongholds and validated them in the defense environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.420-423
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• 2019

최근 국내에서 발생되고 있는 사이버 공격들의 대부분은 기존 보안장비로 탐지가 어려운 지능형 공격으로 2017년 한 해 동안 발생한 사이버 공격의 경제적 피해액은 약 77조원에 달하고 있다. 또한 이러한 공격을 탐지하는데 평균 145일 정도가 소요되고 있으며 국내 기업 중 약 70% 가량은 사이버 공격을 적극적으로 대응하고 있지 않다. 이러한 공격들은 대부분 과거에 발생한 공격의 변형이거나, 특정 공격 집단이 수행하는 유사/변종 공격들이다. 이러한 사이버 공격을 사전에 탐지하거나 이미 발생된 공격의 변형된 공격을 신속하게 탐지하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 기존 사이버 공격에 사용된 다양한 정보들을 능동적으로 수집하여, 이들 간의 연관성을 분석하고, 실시간으로 유입되는 공격 의심정보와 비교분석하는 기술을 제시한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.21-31
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• 2012

Threat Evaluation(TE) which has air intelligence attained by identifying friend or foe evaluates the target's threat degree, so it provides information to Weapon Assignment(WA) step. Most of TE data are passed by sensor measured values, but existing techniques(fuzzy, bayesian network, and so on) have many weaknesses that erroneous linkages and missing data may fall into confusion in decision making. Therefore we need to efficient Threat Evaluation system that can refine various sensor data's linkages and calculate reliable threat values under unpredictable war situations. In this paper, we suggest new threat evaluation system based on information fusion JDL model, and it is principle that combine fuzzy which is favorable to refine ambiguous relationships with bayesian network useful to inference battled situation having insufficient evidence and to use learning algorithm. Finally, the system's performance by getting threat evaluation on an air defense scenario is presented.