With the advent of the 5G and 6G era, the device paradigm is shifting to connected cars, edge computing, and IoT, and at the same time, the importance of device security is receiving more attention than ever. Samsung Electronics has demonstrated leadership in security technology to enhance product reliability and user safety.

Samsung Electronics held the 6th Samsung Security Tech Forum (SSTF) online on the 23rd.

The Samsung Security Technology Forum is a forum where academics and industry professionals share the latest technologies and trends in security technology. This year, the forum was held under the theme of "Trust with Samsung: across all your experiences."

In his welcoming address, Seung Hyun-jun, President and Head of Samsung Research, said, “Samsung Electronics always places top priority on customer security and personal information protection,” and added, “We are building a foundation of trust for our products by providing cutting-edge security across all layers, from hardware and software to online services, to ensure the safety of our customers’ daily lives.”

Next, President Seung introduced the main research directions of Samsung Research, including: △building a security foundation using a hardware root of trust, △eliminating security vulnerabilities using automated tools and technologies, and △providing a smooth and safe user experience on various Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
In his keynote speech, Hwang Yong-ho, Executive Director of the Security & Privacy Team at Samsung Research, said that users' personal information is kept safe based on strong security technology.Samsung Electronics announced that it will introduce its efforts to protect the privacy of its customers and share these contents through the Security & Privacy page of its website.

Next, lectures were given by invited experts in the field of security technology, including Professor Daniel Genkin of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S., Professor Muthu Venkitasubramaniam of the Computer Science Department at Georgetown University in the U.S., Manager Weidong Cui of Microsoft Research in the U.S., and Professor Jihoon Kang of the Department of Computer Science at KAIST.

Professor Daniel Jenkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology introduced speculative execution attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown, and web browser-based side-channel attacks. In computer security, a side-channel attack is an attack method based on information about the physical implementation process of a cryptographic system, such as timing information, power consumption, and emitted electromagnetic waves, rather than a design flaw in the protocol or algorithm itself.

Georgetown University professor Muthu Venkitasubramaniam explained secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proof related to blockchain. Secure multi-party computation is a method in which multiple parties who do not trust each other do not share their input values and output the result of calculating encrypted input values, and zero-knowledge proof is a method in which a prover proves to a verifier that he or she knows information without revealing secret information that only he or she has.

Microsoft Research Manager Weidong Chui shared a program analysis technique that uses Intel Processor Trace to find bugs in system code, and KAIST Professor Jihoon Kang gave a lecture on the problems and research that arise during formal verification of the kernel, the core of the operating system.

Meanwhile, this year's expanded Samsung Technology Session showcased the business division's security activities along with key recent security research from Samsung Research researchers.

Additionally, an online hacking experience zone (Hacker's Playground) was operated, open to everyone from beginners to advanced hackers. Samsung Electronics has been hosting the "Samsung Security Technology Forum" annually since 2017 to expand the base of information security technology and cultivate talent.