Summary
Quad Miners has been selected for the Core Information Security Source Technology Development Project (정보보호핵심원천기술개발사업), supervised by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP). The project, valued at KRW 5.6 billion (approx. $3.8M), aims to develop technology for detecting, responding to, and predicting new and evolving cyberattacks driven by generative AI. The company stated it plans to apply the resulting technology to its NDR solution, NETWORK BLACKBOX.
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Quad Miners Selected for Core Information Security Source Technology Development Project
Quad Miners, founded in 2017, is a network security company co-founded by four developers, each with more than 10 years of experience in network security. The company released its NDR (Network Detection and Response) solution, NETWORK BLACKBOX, in 2019.
Quad Miners has been selected for the Core Information Security Source Technology Development Project, supervised by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP). The project is valued at approximately KRW 5.6 billion (approx. $3.8M) and aims to develop new technology for detecting, responding to, and predicting new and evolving cyberattacks carried out by organized cyber threat groups using generative AI.
The company stated that it plans to apply the technology developed through this project to its NDR solution, NETWORK BLACKBOX, and pursue commercialization in Korea as well as in Japan and Southeast Asia.
Quad Miners has also been listed in Gartner reports related to the NDR (Network Detection and Response) category for four consecutive years since 2020. Among vendors listed in the Gartner report, Quad Miners is known to be the only Korean company included. The company was also named to Forbes Asia's "100 to Watch" list in 2022.
※ This content has been compiled based on facts confirmed in an interview article published by News2day (reporter Kim Han-kyung).
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