Standardization items proposed by Korea were approved at an international information security meeting.
The Ministry of Science and ICT said on the 14th that 13 new standardization items proposed by Korea were approved at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Standardization Sector Study Group on Security international meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 3rd to the 11th. In addition, 13 international standards proposed by Korea were preliminarily adopted, and one international standard, one technical report, and one corrigendum were finally approved.
Experts from 66 member countries around the world attended this international meeting, and Korea sent 76 experts and proposed a total of 80 items. At this meeting, Korea won approval for 13 standardization items, including security standards to apply end-to-end encryption technologies to quantum key distribution networks. Also, 13 items, including application security technologies based on distributed ledger technology that Korea has led in developing for years, were preliminarily adopted as international standards.
In addition, the international standard for evaluating the security of mobile devices, a technical report on environmental analysis for protecting avatar data in Metaverse applications, and a corrigendum on security threats and requirements for data access and sharing based on distributed ledger technology were finally approved.
Im Jeong-gyu, director general for information security network policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, "To begin developing standards in next-generation security, roadmap development must come first, and it is significant that Korea is taking the lead in digital twins and distributed ledger technology," and added, "Through this international meeting, we achieved both qualitative and quantitative growth, and the start of developing AI security standards is a new opportunity to expand the information security market, and we will join forces with experts from industry, academia, and research."