ATON said on the 24th that it will begin in earnest to meet transmission qualification certification requirements through BUF, a SaaS security solution that detects and blocks malicious URLs and spam messages in real time at the text-sending stage.
According to ATON, with the Enforcement Decree of the Telecommunications Business Act and the Notice on Standards for Transmission Qualification Certification taking effect on Apr. 28, text relayers and text resellers equipped with a value-added telecommunications service system must obtain transmission qualification certification to operate their businesses. The certification standards include operating a "malicious text pre-blocking system" that automatically detects and blocks risk factors such as banned words and malicious URLs contained in texts.
BUF analyzes and scores words contained in text and social media (SNS) messages to classify banned words such as gambling and illegal investment, as well as spam. At the same time, it can determine in real time whether a malicious URL abused for phishing and smishing is dangerous. In particular, by offering banned-word filtering and malicious URL detection through a single API, it enables businesses to filter risky texts at the pre-sending stage in a one-stop manner without building the two systems separately.
In addition, BUF broadened its detection scope by combining malicious URL information provided by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) with data from multiple sources, including global data providers and cybersecurity corporations, and it provides banned-word and spam keyword analysis results by training on KISA's spam data. It also operates its own data verification center to minimize over-detection in which normal texts are misclassified as malicious, thereby ensuring accuracy so that client messages are not blocked unnecessarily.
ATON has productized for text-sending businesses its malicious URL and spam detection technology (Defenders), verified on a large user base through supplies to PASS and the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, as the SaaS offering BUF. ATON plans to gradually expand functions by applying AI and Machine Learning technologies to detect impersonation messages and malicious and remote-control apps.
ATON CEO Woo Gil-su said, "With this system strengthening text-sending businesses' role as security gatekeepers, the market will quickly reorganize around businesses equipped with pre-blocking capabilities at the sending stage," adding, "As phishing and smishing spread from text to messengers and SNS, we will add a certification solution to BUF, which covers SNS, to help text-sending businesses respond seamlessly to strengthened regulations and create an environment where users can feel safe."