Korea Internet & Security Agency

Logo of KISA

The Korea Internet & Security Agency (Korean: 한국인터넷진흥원; Hanja: 韓國인터넷振興院; RR: Hangug Inteones Jinheungwon, KISA) is the Ministry of Science and ICT's sub-organization dealing with the allocation and maintenance of South Korea's IPv4/IPv6 address space (and the related WHOIS information), Autonomous System Numbers, and the .kr country code top-level domain (ccTLD), and also responsible for the cybersecurity of the Internet within South Korea, and runs the Korea Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center, a.k.a. KrCERT/CC, for the private sector of the country. Roles include the promotion of safe Internet usage and Internet culture, detecting and analyzing malware/viruses on the web, privacy protection, operating root CA, education on Internet and cybersecurity, and various other cybersecurity issues.

The organization was created in July 2009, as three different agencies were merged into one organization: the Korea Information Security Agency (KISA), the National Internet Development Agency (NIDA) and the Korean IT International Cooperation Agency (KIICA).[1]

KrCERT/CC, which is an internal division of KISA, is a national CSIRT for the private sector and a point of contact for international incident response cooperation on international cybersecurity incident handling. It cooperates and interacts locally with the National Cyber Security Center in the National Intelligence Service of Korea, and relevant stakeholders including local Internet service providers, cybersecurity vendors, and so on. It also interacts with other national CSIRTs and global cybersecurity vendors.

KISA also has 4 regional offices overseas. They are located in Oman for the Middle East region, in Indonesia for Southeast Asia, Costa Rica for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Tanzania for Africa. Their roles are to facilitate inter-governmental cooperation including B2B/B2G/G2B.

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References

  1. ^ "MEMBERS-Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA, formerly NIDA/KRNIC), KOREA---". Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
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