• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.3-8
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• 2011

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), aims a specific business or political targets, is rapidly growing due to fast technological advancement in hacking, malicious code, and social engineering techniques. One of the most important characteristics of APT is persistence. Attackers constantly collect information by remaining inside of the targets. Enterprise Security Management (EMS) system can misidentify APT as normal pattern of an access or an entry of a normal user as an attack. In order to analyze this misidentification, a new system development and a research are required. This study suggests the way of forecasting APT and the effective countermeasures against APT attacks by categorizing misidentified data in data-mining through threshold ratings. This proposed technique can improve the detection of future APT attacks by categorizing the data of long-term attack attempts.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.101-107
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• 2019

Our military's cyberspace is under constant threat from the enemy. These cyber threats are targeted at the information service assets held by the military, and securing the security of the organization's information service assets is critical. However, since Information assets can not be 100% selt-sufficient in any organization as well as the military, acquisition of information assets by the supply chain is an inevitable. Therefor, after reviewing supply chain protection measures to secure the safety of the military supply chain, we proposed a method for securing supply chain companies through the citation of partnership based on the validated trust model.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.47-53
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• 2019

This paper is analyzed of the characteristics of development operations and development security operations of the software and product, and the use analysis tools from a software code perspective. Also, it is emphasized the importance of human factors and the need to strengthen them, when considering security design rules. In this paper, we consider a secure process for managing change, focusing on fast and accurate decision-making in terms of procedural factors, when considering development security operations. In addition, the paper discussed the need for maturity model analysis in relation to the development security operating characteristics, and analyzed the meaning of the analysis elements through detailed procedures for the strength and integration elements of the dynamic and static elements accordingly. The paper also analyzed factors such as scanning activity and code analysis for threat modeling and compliance and control.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.217-218
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• 2023

내부자 위협이란, 조직의 보안 및 데이터, 시스템에 대한 내부 정보에 접근하는 현 임직원 및 전 임직원, 계약자와 같이, 동일한 조직 내부의 사람들로부터 발생하는 위협을 의미한다. 일반적으로 내부자들은 업무를 위하여, 시스템에 대한 합법적인 접근 권한을 가지며, 만약 이러한 권한이 오남용되는 경우에는 조직에 매우 심각한 피해를 입힐 수 있다. 이러한 내부자 위협은 외부로부터의 위협보다 방어 및 탐지가 훨씬 어려운 한계점이 있으며, 그 피해 규모가 매우 방대하다는 문제점도 존재한다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 내부자 위협을 탐지하기 위하여, 이메일을 통한 기밀정보를 유출하는 유형의 위협에 대응하는 방안을 제안한다. 제안하는 방안은 조직 내에서 이메일을 발신하는 경우를 대상으로, 파일이 포함된 이메일에 발신자를 식별하기 위하여, 파일에 키 값 및 서명을 삽입하며, 발신되는 이메일을 모니터링하여 첨부된 파일의 유형을 파악함으로써, 동적 그래프를 통하여 시각화한다. 내부 시스템 및 네트워크에서의 보안관제 담당자 및 관리자는 시각화된 그래프를 확인함으로써, 직관적으로 정보 유출을 파악하고 대응할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방안을 통하여, 조직 내의 내부자 위협을 탐지할 수 있으며, 데이터 유출 사고가 발생하는 경우, 유출자를 빠르게 식별하고 초기에 대응할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.331-346
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• 2019

Global cyber threats to industrial control systems are increasing. As a result, related research and cooperation are actively underway. However, we are focusing on strengthening security for physical network separation and perimeter. Internal threats are still vulnerable. This is because the easiest and strongest countermeasure is to enhance border security, and solutions for enhancing internal security are not easy to apply due to system availability problems. In particular, there are many vulnerabilities due to the large number of legacy systems remaining throughout industrial control systems. Unless these vulnerable systems are newly built according to the security framework, it is necessary to respond to these vulnerable systems, and therefore, a security solution considering availability has been verified and suggested. Using Sysmon and ELK, security solutions can detect Cyber-threat that are difficult to detect in unstructured ICS.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.83-92
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• 2017

Reconnaissance is performed gathering information from a series of scanning probes where the objective is to identify attributes of target hosts. Network reconnaissance of IP addresses and ports is prerequisite to various cyber attacks. In order to increase the attacker's workload and to break the attack kill chain, a few proactive techniques based on the network-based moving target defense (NMTD) paradigm, referred to as IP address mutation/randomization, have been presented. However, there are no commercial or trial systems deployed in real networks. In this paper, we propose a threat model and the request for requirements for developing NMTD techniques. For this purpose, we first examine the challenging problems in the NMTD mechanisms that were proposed for the legacy TCP/IP network. Secondly, we present a threat model in terms of attacker's intelligence, the intended information scope, and the attacker's location. Lastly, we provide seven basic requirements to develop an NMTD mechanism for the legacy TCP/IP network: 1) end-host address mutation, 2) post tracking, 3) address mutation unit, 4) service transparency, 5) name and address access, 6) adaptive defense, and 7) controller operation. We believe that this paper gives some insight into how to design and implement a new NMTD mechanism that would be deployable in real network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.3-14
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• 2002

In this paper we classify the possible threat and introduce the method that measures the loss resulted from the threat in the university. This is the method that the amount of the loss minimized in the case of the same quality in damage as establish a economical prediction model. The method of measuring the loss is as follows. First, asset should be clearly identified and valued. Second, threats which may result in harm to asset should be classified. Third, vulnerabilities which is weaknesses associated with asset should be analyzed. Fourth, measure the value of the loss. we explain the valued method by the example.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.991-1003
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• 2022

Industrial control systems (ICSs) used to be operated in closed networks, that is, separated physically from the Internet and corporate networks, and independent protocols were used for each manufacturer. Thus, their operation was relatively safe from cyberattacks. However, with advances in recent technologies, such as big data and internet of things, companies have been trying to use data generated from the ICS environment to improve production yield and minimize process downtime. Thus, ICSs are being connected to the internet or corporate networks. These changes have increased the frequency of attacks on ICSs. Despite this increased cybersecurity risk, research on ICS security remains insufficient. In this paper, we analyze threats in detail using STRIDE threat analysis modeling and DREAD evaluation for distributed control systems, a type of ICSs, based on our work experience as cybersecurity specialists at a refinery. Furthermore, we verify the validity of threats identified using STRIDE through case studies of major ICS cybersecurity incidents: Stuxnet, BlackEnergy 3, and Triton. Finally, we present countermeasures and strategies to improve risk assessment of identified threats.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.195-202
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• 2017

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have mostly been used for military purposes but with the progress in ICT and reduced manufacturing costs, they are increasingly used for various private services. UAVs are expected to carry out autonomous flying in the future. In order to carry out complex tasks, swarm flights are essential. Although the swarm flights has been researched a lot due to its different network and infrastructure from the existing UAV system, There are still not enough study on security threats and requirements for the secure swarm flights. In this paper, to solve these problems, UAV autonomous flight technology is defined based on US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and swarm flights and security threat about it are classified. And then we defined and compared security requirements according to security threats of each swarm flights so as to contribute to the development of secure UAC swarm flights in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.759-761
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• 2016

Recent changes in the information security environment have led to persistent attacks on intelligent assets such as cyber security breaches, leakage of confidential information, and global security threats. Since existing information security systems are not adequate for Advanced Persistent Threat; APT attacks, bypassing attacks, and attacks on encryption packets, therefore, continuous monitoring is required to detect and protect against such attacks. Accordingly, this paper suggests an operation plan for managing an information security system to block the attack routes of advanced persistent threats. This is achieved with identifying the valuable assets for prevention control by establishing information control policies through analyzing the vulnerability and risks to remove potential hazard, as well as constructing detection control through controlling access to servers and conducting surveillance on encrypted communication, and enabling intelligent violation of response by having corrective control through packet tagging, platform security, system backups, and recovery.