AI NewsWaveSK Telecom and Upstage Launch Homegrown AI Cybersecurity Consortium with Security Firms and Universities
Key points
- SK Telecom and Upstage launch an AI cybersecurity consortium
- 11 institutions take part, including six security firms and three universities
- Security data to be trained into homegrown AI models and validated
SK Telecom and Upstage launched a homegrown AI cybersecurity consortium with major South Korean information security companies and universities, and signed a business agreement on AI information security technology cooperation. The signing ceremony was held on the afternoon of Oct. 7 at SKT Tower in Seoul, and the companies announced it on Oct. 8.
Six security companies, including SK Shieldus, SECUI, AhnLab, RaonSecure, Genians and Piolink, and three universities, including Korea University, Soongsil University and Pusan National University, joined the consortium. Boannews and Korea NGO Times reported that 11 institutions take part, including SKT and Upstage.
The cooperation is based on SKT's A.X K series and Upstage's Solar model, which advanced to the third stage of the government's homegrown AI foundation model project. The plan is to train these models on real security field data, use them for malware detection, software vulnerability analysis and incident response, and apply them to commercial security solutions to validate their performance and safety.