• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.797-805
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• 2019

Threats targeting cyberspace are becoming more intelligent and increasing day by day. To cope with such cyber threats, it is essential to improve the coping ability of system security officers. In this paper, we propose a simulated threat generator that automatically generates cyber threats for cyber defense training. The proposed Simulated Threat Generator is designed with MITRE ATT & CK(Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge) framework to easily add an evolving cyber threat and select the next threat based on the threat execution result.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.75-86
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• 2008

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.143-151
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• 2020

The cyber battlefield called the fifth battlefield, is not based on geological information unlike the existing traditional battlefiels in the land, sea, air and space, and has a characteristics that all information has tightly coupled correlation to be anlayized. Because the cyber battlefield has created by the network connection of computers located on the physical battlefield, it is not completely seperated from the geolocational information but it has dependency on network topology and software's vulnerabilities. Therefore, the analysis for cyber battlefield should be provided in a form that can recognize information from multiple domains at a glance, rather than a single geographical or logical aspect. In this paper, we describe a study on the development of the cyber operation COP(Common Operational Picture), which is essential for command and control in the cyber warfare. In particular, we propose an architecure for cyber operation COP to intuitively display information based on visualization techniques applying the multi-layering concept from multiple domains that need to be correlated such as cyber assets, threats, and missions. With this proposed cyber operation COP with multi-layered visualization that helps to describe correlated information among cyber factors, we expect the commanders actually perfcrm cyber command and control in the very complex and unclear cyber battlefield.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.5685-5700
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• 2018

Cyber intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has become more important than traditional military ISR. An agent used in cyber ISR resides in an enemy's networks and continually collects valuable information. Thus, this agent should be able to determine what is, and is not, useful in a short amount of time. Moreover, the agent should maintain a classification rate that is high enough to select useful data from the enemy's network. Traditional feature selection algorithms cannot comply with these requirements. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an effective hybrid feature selection method derived from the filter and wrapper methods. We illustrate the design of the proposed model and the experimental results of the performance comparison between the proposed model and the existing model.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.533-540
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• 2016

It is important to establish the environment for cyber warrior training, testing support and effectiveness analysis in order to cope with sharply increasing cyber threat. However, those practices cannot be easily performed in real world and are followed with many constraints. In this paper, we propose a live/virtual M&S-based system for training/testing and constructive M&S-based system for effectiveness analysis to provide an environment similar to real world. These can be utilized to strengthen the capability to carry out cyber war and analyze the impact of cyber threat under the large-scale networks.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.49-60
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• 2004

Information Warfare(IW), a new aspect of war, is the field centralized the concern and research in the information security and national security, Both the defense and the offensive are important in the next generation IW, and so we need to do the various research to secure the network and system for gaining the superiority of IW. This paper proposes a model for IW based on software cruise to prepare the IW that is changing the offensive aspect. Software cruise is defined as a behavior of computer programs that travel toward specific destination from a source through the network. The proposed model have the cruise property and uses the cybermap to cruise toward the destination chosen in advance. Also, while self-movement, the model can function the predefined task.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.707-716
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• 2018

Recently, instead of technical cyber operations that directly attack the target information system by using cyber attack techniques, social engineering techniques that indirectly invade the system by exploiting the vulnerabilities of persons who manage the system are being watched. Despite this trend, there is a lot of confusion because there is no clear concept about the relationship between cyber operations and social engineering techniques. Therefore, this paper aims at establishing a clear concept of a social engineering cyber operation, helping future researchers in this literature.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.358-361
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• 2016

The North and South Korea for the peaceful reunification of the Republic of Korea, to lead the transformation and reform, and to complement the policy making and negotiations, there is a need for cyber security policy to practice. This paper explores the definition and overseas cyber terrorism and cyber warfare correspondence, correspondence between the versions of the technology between versions. Analysis of cyber security activities in the North and South confrontation, and research the cyber security policy against the unification. In this study, we compared the unification to build and operate a secure cyberspace from cyber threats and cyber security policy suggestions for ways of rational and legal.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.281-292
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• 2017

It is demanded to promote research and development of cyber weapons system and core technology in response to the ongoing cyber attack of North Korea. In this paper, core technologies of the future cyber weapon system are developed and the factors affecting the realization timing of core technologies were analyzed. 9 core technology groups and 36 core technologies are derived. Afterwards, these core technology groups are compared to the operation phase of the joint cyber warfare guideline and the cyber kill chain of Lockheed Martin. As a result of the comparison, it is confirmed that the core technology groups cover all phases of the aforementioned tactics. The results of regression analyses performed on the degree of influence by each factor regarding the moment of core technology realization show that the moment of core technology realization approaches more quickly as factors such as technology level of the most advanced country, technology level of South Korea, technology transfer possibility from the military sector to the non-military sector(spin-off factor), and technology transfer possibility from the non-military sector to the military sector(spin-on factor) increase. On the contrary, the moment of core technology realization is delayed as the degree at which the advanced countries keep their core technologies from transferring decrease. The results also confirm that the moment of core technology realization is not significantly correlated to the economic ripple effect factor. This study is meaningful in that it extract core technologies of cyber weapon system in accordance with revision of force development directive and join cyber warfare guideline, which incorporated cyber weapon system into formal weapon system. Furthermore, the study is significant because it indicates the influential factor of the moment of core technology realization.