The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) said on the 12th that, together with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Asia-Pacific office and the Passwordless Alliance, it will hold an "information security standards technology training" in Bangkok, Thailand, for three days from the 11th to the 13th of this month. The ITU Asia-Pacific office is an organization that supports digital transformation, ICT infrastructure development, and strengthening standardization capabilities for member states in the Asia-Pacific region. The Passwordless Alliance is an inter-corporations cooperative body aimed at standardizing and spreading passwordless authentication methods using biometrics and hardware security keys.
This training was prepared to support the practical overseas market entry of our corporations that have established international standards through TTA's "ICT standards advisory service." The ICT standards advisory service is a standardization consulting program that, since 2001, has helped domestic small and medium-sized corporations establish their technologies as domestic and international standards.
In particular, focusing on "passwordless" technology that fundamentally addresses security vulnerabilities such as phishing while improving user convenience by using biometrics and hardware security keys, TTA said it enhanced the effectiveness of the training by designing it as an "experiential curriculum" that uses participating corporations' solutions so that standard technologies can be directly connected to real business.
In this training, corporations such as NamoSoft and ESTOM, which established their technologies as international standards through TTA's standards advisory service, will participate directly as instructors. The program was designed to consist of an overview of international standards — including △storage protection technologies (ITU-T X.1220*, X.1223**) △passwordless technologies (ITU-T X.1280**) — along with a hands-on format in which attendees directly install and run standard-based solutions, so that experts from participating countries can experience the excellence of Korean technology and enhance their on-site deployment capabilities.
TTA said it expects that, through this training, in which more than 30 security experts from governments and research institutes in 15 countries across the Asia-Pacific and CIS (Central Asia, Eastern Europe, etc.) regions will participate, it will increase the local applicability of international standard technologies led by Korea and, building on this, solidify the foundation for strengthening the global competitiveness of domestic security corporations and developing overseas sales channels.
TTA President Son Seung-hyun said, "This training is a venue for practical business exchange that helps directly apply international standard-based information security technologies to operations," adding, "We will continue to provide support through the standards advisory service and the global standards cooperation program so that our corporations can secure trusted competitiveness in the global market."