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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