▲ Song Kee-ho, Third Deputy Director of the National Security Office, visits the joint public-private-military cyber situation room established at the Korea Internet & Security Agency in Songpa-gu, Seoul, on September 23 to inspect cyber threat monitoring and emergency response systems during the holiday period.
The National Security Office (NSO) announced in a press release on November 15 that it held a “joint public-private-military cyber security response meeting” presided over by Song Kee-ho, Third Deputy Director of National Security, to review the management status of all information technology (IT) assets.
During the meeting, an interim review was conducted on the complete survey of system and network architecture maps that has been underway since August across the private, public, and defense sectors, while a joint situation assessment was also carried out regarding recent major domestic and international cyber incidents.
In August, the NSO had directed the establishment of a management system to fully identify information assets, including hardware and software, in cooperation with the primary agencies overseeing public-private-military cyber crises: the Ministry of Science and ICT, the National Intelligence Service, and the Ministry of National Defense.
Regarding the meeting, the NSO explained, “Through this interim review, we plan to swiftly establish a management system that keeps system and network architecture maps up to date.”
In addition, the NSO plans to prepare various measures to preemptively prevent cyber security breaches, such as acquiring vulnerability information at the pre-disclosure stage early through foreign government agencies, software vendors, and relevant communities, and promptly sharing it.
Along with this, to quickly identify systems that could be affected when vulnerabilities arise, it will further accelerate the implementation of the “Software Bill of Materials (SBOM),” which contains detailed software components.
(Photo courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae, Yonhap News)
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