Korea sets out to train more cyber experts, hackers

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130719000709

By Jin Eun-soo and Choi Jung-min
The Korea Herald
2013-07-19

South Korea is taking belated-yet-necessary-steps to train more cyber 
security experts following a series of disruptive hacking attacks that 
paralyzed broadcasters, banks and government agencies. Ominously, many of 
the attacks reportedly originate in North Korea, which is technically 
still at war with the South.

“Generally, the defense military force needs to be about three or four 
times bigger than the attacking army. North Korea produces about 300 cyber 
attackers annually, but we are only at the starting point with 30 to 40 
human resources,” said Lim Jong-in, dean of the Graduate School of 
Information Security at Korea University, in an interview with The Korea 
Herald.

To narrow the gap with the North, South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT 
and Future Planning has drawn up a plan to foster 5,000 “white-hat 
hackers” or, in a more broad term, “cyber security professionals,” by 
2017.

Of the planned 5,000 specialists announced by the ministry, 1,260 of them 
will be raised under government-affiliated agencies linked to the 
Department of Cyber Defense at Korea University, Korea Information 
Technology Research Institute and Korea Internet & Security Agency.

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