SKT and Naver Cloud Face Off in Cybersecurity AI Race
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SK Telecom and Naver Cloud each formed a consortium and joined the Ministry of Science and ICT's project to develop a specialized artificial intelligence foundation model in the cybersecurity field.
The SK Telecom consortium consists of 13 organizations, including 9 security companies such as AhnLab, Upstage, and KISIA, and is focused on demonstrating AI security services optimized for domestic environments.
The Naver Cloud consortium, together with 32 participating organizations including LG CNS, is pushing ahead with the development of a practical, full-stack-based model.
SK Telecom and Naver Cloud have entered a race to develop AI for cybersecurity. A competitive landscape has emerged as the two companies each formed a consortium and joined the Ministry of Science and ICT's project to develop a specialized artificial intelligence foundation model in the cybersecurity field.
The applications submitted on the 26th were from the SK Telecom consortium and the Naver Cloud consortium. Both sides are advancing the development of a cybersecurity-specialized AI foundation model.
Against the backdrop of growing efforts overseas to use high-performance AI models for cyber defense, the SK Telecom consortium has set its course on demonstrating AI services optimized for domestic environments. Its plan is also centered on showcasing AI security services optimized for domestic conditions.
The SK Telecom consortium consists of 13 participating organizations, including 9 security companies such as AhnLab, Upstage, and the Korea Information Security Industry Association (KISIA). The theme of the proposed project is "Development of a Full-Spectrum Cybersecurity-Specialized AI Foundation Model Family and Demonstration of Agentic Security Services Based on the Domestic Cyber Threat Environment."
The Naver Cloud-LG CNS consortium also joined the project. The Naver Cloud-LG CNS consortium has set a policy of building a practical, full-stack-based model.
This consortium is structured with SK Telecom as the lead company overseeing the overall project. SK Telecom and Upstage, which have competed in the second evaluation round for the national AI model, will jointly handle model development. SK Telecom owns and develops its own AI foundation model family, A.X K, while Upstage owns and develops its own AI foundation model family, Solar Open.
The two companies will develop security-specialized models based on their respective families. Nine security companies are participating in this consortium, and the security firms plan to feed real-world operational data into model training. The finished model will then be improved through field validation.
By company, SK Shieldus and Igloo Corporation will be responsible for security monitoring and threat analysis, with a focus on endpoint security and malware analysis. Genians and AhnLab will handle network and access control. Genians and SecuI are participating in the network access and control area.
The project involves not only companies but also academia and industry associations. RaonSecure, Smart M2M, and Piolink will handle simulated penetration testing and vulnerability checks, while Aim Intelligence will be responsible for evaluating AI model stability.
The industry-academia cooperation foundations of Korea University and Soongsil University will be responsible for independent verification of model performance and safety. The verification process will be separated from the developers, and the two organizations will also play a role in training professionals in cybersecurity and AI convergence.
KISIA is a legally recognized corporation in the information security industry and has 350 member companies across the full spectrum of the industry, including information security and physical security. In this project, KISIA will work to promote the spread of development results across the industry and to link the effort with employee training.
SK Telecom plans to carry out its role by leveraging its security governance and its capabilities in monitoring network infrastructure. Its operating organization is the Integrated Security Center under the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and the center has 129 dedicated staff members. Including the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) organization, the total staff count is 149.
Naver Cloud has proposed to the government the project "Development of AI Foundation Models for Internalizing National Cybersecurity Capabilities" through a consortium of 32 participating organizations, including LG CNS.
This consortium is led by Naver Cloud. Naver Cloud formed the consortium with LG CNS, and the participating organizations include LG AI Research, LG Uplus, Logpresso, Sparrow, ESTsecurity, Jiransoft Security, HyperAccel, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, KEPCO KDN, the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Seoul National University, the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Pohang University of Science and Technology, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Based on its own technological capabilities spanning AI models, infrastructure, and data, Naver Cloud plans to develop a practical, full-stack model. In the process, Naver Cloud and LG CNS will focus on developing and internalizing models specialized for the security domain.
Naver Cloud highlighted its experience in commercially deploying and operating foundation models in highly regulated, high-security sectors such as nuclear power and finance as a strength. The deployment and operating environment in question is an isolated network and on-premises.
LG CNS aims to build a practical model that can be deployed immediately in the field by combining its know-how in data encryption and isolation based on the Public Cloud Security Certification (CSAP). This means creating a model with improved field applicability by adding security implementation know-how based on CSAP.
LG CNS has specialized organizations covering the full range of cybersecurity, including red teams, blue teams, and AI security teams, as well as extensive experience in AX projects across various industries. In addition, it plans to leverage telecom-network-specific data from group affiliates such as LG Uplus, advance training on models based on that data, and complete functionality and performance through demonstrations in complex security environments.
The consortium includes a total of 33 industry, academia, and research organizations, and operates by organically combining security specialists with attack and detection technologies, major universities conducting vulnerability and AI safety research, and research and public institutions responsible for national-level threat data and third-party verification. The company said this has secured an end-to-end, self-contained system for developing cybersecurity-specialized models and established a development framework that does not rely on external dependencies.
Source: IT DAILY · Seong Won-young
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