From Securing Security Technologies to Service Implementation
Plans to Develop an Integrated AI Security Platform
LG Electronics and Seoul National University will establish a specialized industry-academia research center to advance artificial intelligence (AI) security technologies.
LG Electronics announced on December 14 that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Seoul National University in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, with key stakeholders including Kim Byunghun, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of LG Electronics, and Kim Juhan, Vice President of Research at Seoul National University, to establish the 'Secured AI Research Center.' LG Electronics will collaborate with Seoul National University by leveraging its research personnel and infrastructure to jointly carry out a variety of industry-academia projects, ranging from securing AI security technologies to implementing safe services. The center will focus on researching and developing technologies that build a secure AI ecosystem, such as enhancing the security of large language model (LLM) agents and preventing data leakage.
LG Electronics recently announced on the 14th that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish the 'Secured AI Research Center' at Seoul National University in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, with key stakeholders including Kim Byunghun, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of LG Electronics, and Kim Juhan, Vice President of Research at Seoul National University.
Specifically, the center aims to establish the 'MLSecOps' model, which applies a security framework throughout the entire software development and operation process, specialized for machine learning. While LLM agents, which understand and generate language and perform various tasks, offer convenience in daily life, they also increase threats such as 'hallucination' (the generation of false information) and 'external attempts to steal data.' Since comprehensive responses to these threats are difficult with conventional 'DevOps' and 'MLOps' approaches, the goal is to implement a system with a stronger focus on security.
Additionally, the center plans to develop an AI security platform that can be applied in real industrial environments, performing integrated roles such as intrusion detection and data protection throughout the entire process from data collection, training, deployment, operation, to disposal.
The inaugural director of the center will be Hong Yongtaek, Dean of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University. Professor Hong is a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), a regular member of the National Academy of Science and Technology of Korea, and this year received the Innovation Medal of the Order of Science and Technology Merit of Korea.
From LG Electronics, Lim Hyojun, Head of the Next-Generation Computing Research Institute under the CTO division, will be responsible for reviewing and coordinating research projects. The Next-Generation Computing Research Institute is an organization that proactively secures future technologies such as next-generation security, blockchain, quantum computing, and distributed computing, and creates innovative business value.
Kim Byunghun, CTO (Executive Vice President) of LG Electronics, stated, "As AI technologies are being utilized in a wide range of fields such as home appliances, mobility, and robotics, security and safety are becoming essential. We will advance next-generation security technologies to establish leadership in the field of AI security and strive to provide society with safer and more reliable products and services."
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