Anti-tampering Process for the Protection of Weapon Systems Technology in Korea

Anti-tampering Process for the Protection of Weapon Systems Technology in Korea

연구 분야: Cryptography

학회: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications

Korea’s arms exports reached $17 billion in 2022, ranking fifth in the world. Further, Korea’s defense science and technology level was ranked ninth in the world in 2020. Recently, cyberattacks targeting advanced weapon systems are on the rise, so the need to protect the technologies of defense companies while protecting the technologies of weapon systems for export is growing. In Korea, the Defense Industry Technology Protection Act, enacted in 2015, compels defense companies to build a defense technology protection system. However, the focus is only on the defense industry’s technology protection system, and there is no system for protecting the weapon system technology, which is being exported, and the related research is insignificant. In this paper, we studied a weapon system anti-tampering process that can be applied to the weapon systems R&D procedure as a way to protect the defense critical technology of the weapon systems. The proposed method linked the anti-tampering process to the technical review meeting for each stage of systems engineering procedure. Also we defined the anti-tampering security level so that the target level to be implemented, and the process of determining the anti-tampering technology based on the identification of the defense critical technology and the risk assessment, and also the identification procedure for applicable anti-tampering technologies.