Zero trust, AAM, vehicle edge computing, etc.
A total of 6 cases were approved at the ITU-T international conference in the first half of 2024

The Ministry of Science and ICT has achieved the result of having a total of six international standards developed under the leadership of our country approved.

The Ministry of Science and ICT announced that around 330 experts from 55 member countries around the world attended the international conference of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Information Security Study Group (SG17, Chair: Professor Yeom Heung-yeol of Soonchunhyang University) held in Geneva, Switzerland from February 20 to March 1, and around 50 experts from Korea participated.

It was announced that at this international conference, nine new standard tasks proposed by Korea, including zero-trust security and advanced aviation traffic data security, were approved, and a total of six standardization approval results (two pre-adoption, four final approval), including edge computing security for vehicles, were achieved.

The Advanced Aviation Traffic Data Security Challenge mainly covered the classification system for vehicles, weather, geography, and personal information used in the AAM environment, security threats to classified data, security requirements, and implementation guidelines for strengthening security.

At the last SG17 international conference held in Korea in August last year, zero trust, software supply chain security, and artificial intelligence were discussed. We have reached a global consensus on next-generation standardization topics such as security.

In this international conference, as a follow-up measure, our country proposed a new standard task for △zero-trust security developed in close cooperation with the United States and received approval. Including this, we proposed 9 new standard tasks for △data security in advanced air traffic environments and △remote biometric authentication, and all 9 were approved.

In addition, two security guidelines, including △Security for edge computing environments for vehicles and △Security for combining de-identified data, were pre-adopted as international standards.

In addition, a total of four international standards, including △server authentication using mobile terminals, △security assurance for digital financial services, △software update security for intelligent transportation system communication devices, and △security of IoT devices and gateways, were finally approved without objection after circulation to member countries.

Ryu Je-myeong, Director of the Network Policy Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “We will gradually expand our global standardization leadership in cybersecurity, one of the 12 national strategic technologies, and continue to cooperate with industry, academia, and research institutes to proactively lead next-generation security standardization in the international community, such as zero trust, AI security, and SW supply chain security.”