• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.125-134
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• 2020

The potential security threat is increasing as the supply of ICT products to the defense sector increases with the development of information and communication technology. Attempts to neutralize, such as intelligence gathering and destruction, through attacks on the defense power support system and the intelligence system of the weapons system could pose a fatal threat.Therefore, security measures of supply chain shear system that take into account ICT product production and operation stage to maintenance stage are needed in defense field. In the paper, technical and administrative measures for responding to 12 ICT supply chain security threats at each stage of the defense ICT supply chain life cycle were presented.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.89-100
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• 2001

Information technology has been made remarkable progress and most of computer systems are connected with internet over the world. We have not only advantages to access them easy, but also disadvantages to misuse information, abuse, crack, and damage privacy. We should have safeguards to preserve confidentiality, integrity and availability for our information system. Even tough the security is very important for the defense information system, we should not over limit users availability. BS7799, a British standard, is an evaluation criteria for information security management. In this paper we propose an audit model to manage and audit information security using control items of BS7799, which could be useful to mange the defence information system security. We standardize audit items, and classify them by levels, and degrees by using appropriate audit techniques / methods / processes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.2665-2691
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• 2024

The philosophy of Zero Trust in cybersecurity lies in the notion that nothing assumes to be trustworthy by default. This drives defense organizations to modernize their cybersecurity architecture through integrating with the zero-trust principles. The enhanced architecture is expected to shift protection strategy from static and perimeter-centric protection to dynamic and proactive measures depending on the logical contexts of users, assets, and infrastructure. Given the domain context of defense environment, we aim three challenge problems to tackle and identify four technical approaches by the security capabilities defined in the Zero Trust Architecture. First approach, dynamic access control manages visibility and accessibility to resources or services with Multi Factor Authentication and Software Defined Perimeter. Logical network separation approach divides networks on a functional basis by using Software Defined Network and Micro-segmentation. Data-driven analysis approach enables machine-aided judgement by utilizing Artificial Intelligence, User and Entity Behavior Analytics. Lastly, Security Awareness approach observes fluid security context of all resources through Continuous Monitoring and Visualization. Based on these approaches, a comprehensive study of modern technologies is presented to materialize the concept that each approach intends to achieve. We expect this study to provide a guidance for defense organizations to take a step on the implementation of their own zero-trust architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.57-64
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• 2018

In recent years, a new approach to cyber security, called the moving target defense, has emerged as a potential solution to the challenge of static systems. In this paper, we design a protected server network with a large number of decoys to anonymize the protected servers that dynamically mutate their IP address and port numbers according to Hidden Tunnel Networking, which is a network-based moving target defense scheme. In the network, a protected server is one-to-one mapped to a decoy-bed that generates a number of decoys, and the decoys share the same IP address pool with the protected server. First, the protected server network supports mutating the IP address and port numbers of the protected server very frequently regardless of the number of decoys. Second, it provides independence of the decoy-bed configuration. Third, it allows the protected servers to freely change their IP address pool. Lastly, it can reduce the possibility that an attacker will reuse the discovered attributes of a protected server in previous scanning. We believe that applying Hidden Tunnel Networking to protected servers in the proposed network can significantly reduce the probability of the protected servers being identified and compromised by attackers through deploying a large number of decoys.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1063-1075
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• 2022

In recent years, container techniques have been broadly applied to cloud computing systems to maximize their efficiency, flexibility, and economic feasibility. Concurrently, studies have also been conducted to ensure the security of cloud computing. Among these studies, moving-target defense techniques using the high agility and flexibility of cloud-computing systems are gaining attention. Moving-target defense (MTD) is a technique that prevents various security threats in advance by proactively changing the main attributes of the protected target to confuse the attacker. However, an analysis of existing MTD techniques revealed that, although they are capable of deceiving attackers, MTD techniques have practical limitations when applied to an actual cloud-computing system. These limitations include resource wastage, management complexity caused by additional function implementation and system introduction, and a potential increase in attack complexity. Accordingly, this paper proposes a software-defined MTD system that can flexibly apply and manage existing and future MTD techniques. The proposed software-defined MTD system is designed to correctly define a valid mutation range and cycle for each moving-target technique and monitor system-resource status in a software-defined manner. Consequently, the proposed method can flexibly reflect the requirements of each MTD technique without any additional hardware by using a software-defined approach. Moreover, the increased attack complexity can be resolved by applying multiple MTD techniques.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.679-689
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• 2012

There were clear differences between the DDoS attack on 7th July 2009 and the rest of them prior to the attack. Despite It had emitted relatively small sized packets per infected PC, the attack was very successful making use of HTTP Flooding attack by aggregating small sized packets from the well sized zombie network. As the objective of the attack is not causing permanent damage to the target system but temporal service disruption, one should ensure the availability of the target server by deploying effective defense strategy. In this paper, a novel HTTP based DDoS defense mechanism is introduced with capacity based defense-in-depth strategy.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.485-500
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• 2018

As the size of the system and network environment grows and the network structure and the system configuration change frequently, network administrators have difficulty managing the status manually and identifying real-time changes. In this paper, we suggest a system that scans dynamic network information in real time, scores vulnerability of network devices, generates all potential attack paths, and visualizes them using attack graph. We implemented the proposed algorithm based attack graph; and we demonstrated that it can be applicable in MTD concept based defense system by simulating on dynamic virtual network environment with SDN.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1263-1269
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• 2014

Since the cyber defense has been dependent on commercial products and protection systems, in aspect of the recent trends, our cyber defence ecosystem can be more vulnerable. In case of general defense weapon companies, they have to be observed by the government such as certain proprietary technologies and products for the protection from the enemy. On the contrary, most cyber weapon companies have not been managed like that. For this reason, cyber attack can reach to the inside of our military through the security hole of commercial products. In this paper, we enhanced a military cyber protection ecosystems out of enemy attacks and analyze the hypothetical scenarios to evaluate and verify the vulnerability, and finally more securable ecosystem of military protection system is presented politically and technically.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.27-33
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• 2019

One of serious security threats is a botnet-based attack. A botnet in general consists of numerous bots, which are computing devices with networking function, such as personal computers, smartphones, or tiny IoT sensor devices compromised by malicious codes or attackers. Such botnets can launch various serious cyber-attacks like DDoS attacks, propagating mal-wares, and spreading spam e-mails over the network. To establish a botnet, attackers usually inject malicious URLs into web source codes stealthily by using data hiding methods like Javascript obfuscation techniques to avoid being discovered by traditional security systems such as Firewall, IPS(Intrusion Prevention System) or IDS(Intrusion Detection System). Meanwhile, it is non-trivial work in practice for software developers to manually find such malicious URLs which are hidden in numerous web source codes stored in web servers. In this paper, we propose a security defense system to discover such suspicious, malicious URLs hidden in web source codes, and present experiment results that show its discovery performance. In particular, based on our experiment results, our proposed system discovered 100% of URLs hidden by Javascript encoding obfuscation within sample web source files.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.43-53
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• 2009

In the information society, information security is a critical issue for defense cyber network system. This paper provides a result of a study on the defense cyber exercise system for cyber warfare. So far, defense cyber exercise system has been uneffective and is not systematic even if several exercises has been implemented. In order to overcome these problems, a systematic and integrated cyber exercise process is suggested. Under the suggested system, we expect that cyber exercise for cyber warfare will be implemented with more effective manner.