Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang pointed to cybersecurity as the next core market for artificial intelligence (AI) technology, sending related stocks higher for a second straight day.

Huang Jensen, Nvidia CEO./Courtesy of AP·Yonhap News

As of 9:17 a.m. on the 14th, SANDS Lab(411080) was trading on the KOSDAQ market at 7,160 won, up 1,650 won (29.95%) from the previous trading day.

At the same time, Dream Security(203650) (16.98%), Raonsecure(042510) (14.18%), and AXGATE(356680) (14.88%) were also strong.

SANDS Lab is a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) specialist corporations that provides services to predict cyberthreat information by collecting and analyzing malware and other threats.

Dream Security supplies solutions such as PKI authentication, wired security, and wireless security to government and public institutions. Raonsecure is an AI security and authentication platform corporations that provides biometric-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) and integrated account and access management (IAM).

Earlier, on the 10th (local time) at the Goldman Sachs technology conference in San Francisco, Huang said "cybersecurity" as the next major application following advances in AI technology, which appears to have boosted investor sentiment.

On the day, Huang said, "Cybersecurity is likely to be the next major application area for AI," and predicted, "As AI models automate programming, the pace of code exploitation and modification will accelerate, making change in the cybersecurity industry inevitable."

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