en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Korea Financial Security Institute announced on the 15th that it has carried out an organizational restructuring and personnel reshuffle to proactively respond to the AI transformation of the financial sector and increasingly sophisticated AI-based attacks.

The Institute established a new headquarters-level organization directly under the President, the "Financial AI Security Research Institute," and appointed Kim Sung-woong, head of the AI Innovation Department, as its director. The institute will oversee all AI security-related tasks, and under it, a Financial AI Security Support Center will be established.

Through this organizational restructuring, the Institute plans to strengthen its capabilities in overall AI threat response, ensuring the safety of financial AI services, responding to AI-based voice phishing, and supporting secure cloud utilization. It will also integrate and expand organizations related to AI, data, and cloud to enhance operational efficiency and synergy.

A new "AI Security General Department" was established to oversee the response to AI security threats across the financial sector. This organization is responsible for collecting and analyzing AI attack trends and threat information to provide to financial companies, supporting the establishment of a financial security system suitable for the AI environment.

The existing AI Innovation Department was reorganized into the "AI Security Evaluation Department," which will verify the safety and reliability of AI services introduced by financial companies, expand security assessments including AI Red Teaming, analyze risk factors and security issues of the latest AI technologies, and provide relevant information to the financial sector.

Support functions for small and medium-sized financial companies will also be strengthened. The Financial AI Security Support Center will provide high-performance AI abuse attack cases and countermeasures to financial companies lacking AI security expertise, along with technical support related to AI security.

The organization responsible for responding to voice phishing will also be expanded. The Institute will extend the scope of the ASAP (As Soon As Possible) information sharing and analysis platform for the financial sector from the existing banking sector to the secondary financial sector, and upgrade the dedicated voice phishing response organization to a department level to strengthen AI-based analysis functions.

ASAP is an AI-based information sharing platform that centrally collects and analyzes information on telecommunications financial fraud and rapidly shares it among financial companies. The Institute plans to upgrade the voice phishing prevention and response system through this platform. Cloud security support functions will also be strengthened. With the recent relaxation of network separation regulations in the financial sector leading to the expansion of AI services and SaaS applications, the Cloud Evaluation Department has been placed under the Financial AI Security Research Institute to support financial companies in building secure cloud environments. In terms of personnel, the focus was on ensuring organizational stability and execution capability. The former head of the AI Innovation Department was promoted to director of the Financial AI Security Research Institute to maintain business continuity and expertise; core positions such as the head of the AI Security Evaluation Department, the ASAP office director, and the AI Security Research Team leader were filled through open competitive recruitment, placing young and capable talent.

Additionally, the research institute's staff will be primarily composed of individuals with practical experience in AI security and graduates of the AI professional training program operated by the Institute, to strengthen expertise and promote output. Park Sang-won, President of the Korea Financial Security Institute, stated, "Recently, threats of attacks exploiting security vulnerabilities in high-performance AI models have increased, and AI security threats are growing. Through this expansion of dedicated AI organizations and personnel adjustments, we will proactively respond to AI security threats and support the financial sector in strengthening its AI threat response capabilities without any gaps."

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