Samsung Electronics announced on the 9th that it has secured the final victory in an artificial intelligence (AI) security competition hosted by the U.S. government over two years.
Team Atlanta, formed by a coalition of Samsung Electronics and major domestic and international universities, claimed first place at the world's largest security technology competition, the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), held in Las Vegas, U.S. on the 8th (local time).
The coalition team was composed of over 40 global security researchers from Samsung Research, the research and development organization of Samsung Electronics, as well as Georgia Institute of Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Pohang University of Science and Technology POSTECH.
The AI Cyber Challenge is a massive global security technology competition organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Ministry of National Defense, with a total prize of $22.5 million (approximately 31.3 billion won).
The competition was designed to promote the development of AI security technologies aimed at enhancing the safety of social infrastructure systems, such as traffic, power, and healthcare, by competing to find and complement vulnerabilities in large-scale software (SW).
In the semifinals held last August, over 40 teams participated, among which seven teams, including Team Atlanta, advanced to the finals.
The final match was held in conjunction with the DEF CON 33 event, one of the largest hacking and security conferences in the world.
The final rankings were determined based on the results of automatically analyzing vulnerabilities in the source code of software repositories and applying security patches purely through AI security technology without human intervention.
The Samsung Electronics coalition team showcased technology that quickly identified various complex security vulnerabilities and generated security patches to win the ultimate victory. They also received a prize of $4 million.
Kim Tae-soo, an executive at Samsung Research, expressed his gratitude, saying, "Team Atlanta, including Samsung Electronics, was able to achieve a valuable result by proving its AI security capabilities at a global competition," and added, "We will continue to collaborate with global security experts to further enhance Samsung Electronics' security technology."