HANCOM said on the 6th that it obtained ISO/IEC 5230:2020, the international standard certification of the OpenChain Project, a global open-source compliance standard.
The OpenChain Project was launched under the leadership of the Linux Foundation in the United States and grants ISO/IEC 5230:2020 certification by comprehensively evaluating corporations' open-source policies, processes, expertise, and education across compliance.
HANCOM has established and is operating a dedicated organization, the OSPO (Open Source Program Office) and OSRB (Open Source Review Board), to build systematic open-source governance. Through this, it has secured a sustainable management system that both activates participation in the global open-source ecosystem and responds quickly when in-house open-source issues arise.
Open source underpins modern information technology (IT) such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and software as a service (SaaS). Accordingly, securing transparency and reliability across the entire software supply chain has emerged as a core global competitive edge. With this, HANCOM has internationally proven that it systematically manages open-source license risks in all product and service development processes in line with global standards.
This achievement is drawing even more attention as it aligns with HANCOM's recent push to expand the AI ecosystem by releasing core technologies as open source, including "OpenDataLoader PDF." Using this as a springboard, HANCOM plans to advance its companywide open-source management system and actively participate in domestic and overseas open-source community activities to contribute to the ecosystem's development.
Jung Ji-hwan, HANCOM's CTO, said, "This achievement means HANCOM has the capability not only to consume open source but also to manage it safely in line with global standards and contribute to the ecosystem," and added, "Based on trusted technological capabilities, we will establish ourselves as a global standard leader that practices transparent open-source management—including management of software bill of materials (SBOM), whose importance has grown recently—and contributes to the AI technology ecosystem."