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(South Korea) Ahnlab, Inc. Is enagaged in developing security solutions or anti-virus from internet borne threats for network server systems, personal computers. A denial of service attack that took down some of South Korea's highest profile Web sites on Wednesday is set to resume Thursday evening, according to computer security specialist AhnLab.


By Jun Ji-hye
  1. As a leading security service provider that first started providing information security services in South Korea, AhnLab provides managed security services “24/7/365”—any time, all year around—based on its extensive experience and expertise.
  2. AhnLab, a cloud security technology provider that develops information security solutions and services for consumers, enterprises, and more. Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea 501-1000.

AhnLab and EST Security are moving to join the bid for the Ministry of National Defense's biannual project to construct anti-virus software for military internet servers, company officials and industry sources Friday.

Another security software provider, Hauri, which has offered its anti-virus software in the previous projects, has also expressed its intention to participate in the bid, but the bidding is likely to be a two-way race between AhnLab and EST Security, considering that the ministry has been in a court battle with Hauri over the 2016 cyberattacks on military internet servers.

'We are interested in the bidding for the defense ministry's vaccine project,' an AhnLab official told The Korea Times.

An official from EST Security also said, 'We have decided to join the ministry's project.'
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The defense ministry is currently looking for potential bidders and seeks to finalize the selection process by the end of the month at the latest, according to sources and media reports.

Security software providers here have previously seemed reluctant to participate in the ministry's anti-virus software construction project as it was considered to involve high risks but is not that profitable

The military internet servers here always run a risk of cyberattacks as the two Koreas are still technically at war.

Military prosecutors concluded in 2017 that the high-profile 2016 cyberattack ― in which a great deal of military data was leaked ― was the work of North Korean agents based in China. Leaked data included some confidential information on the South Korea-U.S. joint operational plan.

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As Hauri was the sole bidder in 2017, the ministry had to sign a contract with the firm again despite the cyberattack.

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But the ongoing project that will cover two years from next year appears to have attracted more security software providers as the ministry increased its budget allocated to the project to about 10 billion won ($8.6 million) from the previous 4.1 billion won.

The ministry divided the project into two sections ― the purchase of anti-virus vaccines, for which 4 billion won will be used, and the system integration, for which 6 billion won has been allocated.

Security software providers are aiming to win a contract to sell their anti-virus vaccines.
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'Unlike in the past, this year's project seems to be worth a try in terms of profitability. This would be why large companies such as AhnLab and EST Security are participating,' an official from a security software provider said, asking not to be named.

The ministry plans to purchase licenses of anti-virus vaccines through the Public Procurement Service after evaluating candidates.

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX

Optimum choice for large-scale, hybrid and advanced DDoS attacks

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX is the most powerful protection solution for Anti-DDoS. No.1 Market share in Korea is AhnLab TrusGuard DPX.

Source: “South Korea Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Solution Market, Forecast to 2021” August 2017, Frost & Sullivan


Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become one of the most serious threats against today's Internet-based entities, including e-commerce, infrastructure, and government websites. In a DDoS attack, compromised zombie computers or botnets can take down websites or other Internet services with excessive requests for system resources.

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX is designed to defeat today’s highly complex and sophisticated DDoS attacks with an intelligent defense strategy. It ensures business continuity and resource availability with an all-inclusive security layer that not only detects today’s more complex attacks, but also mitigates their effects.

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX provides all-inclusive features to block these complex attacks, regardless of techniques or methods.

  • - Real-time traffic monitoring and automatic self-learning
  • - Protection from network to application (HTTP)
  • - Source IP based protection and spoofed IP protection including TCP Flooding and others
  • - TCP session based protection including TCP Multi-Connection, TCP Established Attack, Low Bandwidth TCP Session Flooding
  • - HTTP based protection including HTTP Get Flooding, HTTP Null Page Flooding, HTTP CC Attack, HTTP Redirect Bypass Flooding, SQL Query Based HTTP Attack
  • - Protection against new and advanced attacks, like DNS Amplification Attack, RUDY or Slowloris

Multi-Layered Mitigation Filtering

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX employs following multi-layered mitigation filters to stop highly complex attacks: Untrusted traffic block, Ant-spoofing protection, HTTP access authentication, Unauthorized IP block, Threshold-based protection and Signature-based protection.

Flexible Deployment – Inline & Out-of-Path

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX can be deployed inline on a network or as part of an out-of-path topology. By allowing traffic bypasses, TrusGuard DPX provides a safe level of fault tolerance and continues to route traffic, even in the event of a system failure. In addition, TrusGuard DPX ensures fault tolerance and operational stability without affecting the traffic flow when located outside of the network path.

Clustering Capability

The outstanding scalability provided by the clustering capability can simultaneously manage up to 120 Gbps of bandwidth and synchronize a list of trusted IP addresses with all the other devices within the cluster.

1 Appliance – 328 Zones (Multi – Tenancy)

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX can simultaneously configure up to 328 different zones with different protection policies for each zone.

Powerful Monitoring

Monitoring traffic flow and mitigation measures across the network is made simple with color indicators: green means the network is secure, orange requires attention, and red is critical. Mobile devices are also supported.

AhnLab TrusGuard DPX Specifications

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TrusGuard DPX 6000A
Throughput10G
CPU6 Core
RAM64GB
​​​CFast​​​8GB
Console1 (RJ-45)
​1GC​​​10 (Max 34 ports, Including Mgmt)​​
​1GF​​​2 (Max 16 ports)​​
​10GF​​​0 (Max 16 ports)​​​​
​Bypass​​Support​
Power​550W Redundant​
TrusGuard DPX 10000A
Throughput40G
CPU28 Core
RAM64GB
​​CFast​​8GB
Console1 (RJ-45)
​1GC​​​2 (Max 34 ports Including Mgmt)​​
​1GF​​0 (Max 16 ports)​​​
​10GF​​4 (Max 16 ports)​​​​
​Bypass​​Support​
Power​​550W Redundant​​