Korea Local Information Development Institute Strengthens Cybersecurity Network for Local Governments... 'Information Security Working Council' Held

【Financial News】The Korea Local Information Development Institute announced on the 11th that it held the '2025 Local Government Information Security Working Council' at the Sejong Government Convention Center in Sejong City, targeting over 280 information security practitioners from 17 metropolitan municipalities and 228 basic municipalities nationwide.
The council was prepared to proactively respond to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and to enhance the connectivity and effectiveness of information security policies between regions, focusing on information sharing and strengthening cooperation systems among practitioners.
The event on this day was themed 'Establishing Local Government Information Security Governance' and 'Enhancing Information Protection Capabilities', featuring the sharing of information protection policy directions, presentations on recent security threat cases and response cases, explanations of the 2026 information protection informatization business plan (draft), and operated as a communication platform to gather opinions from local government officials and reflect voices from the field.
The institute plans to further strengthen security monitoring and information protection consulting to respond to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats such as ransomware and personal information leakage, and to enhance regional cybersecurity capabilities comprehensively through constant cooperation systems with local governments nationwide.
Park Deok-su, the director, said, "We will establish a more robust cyber safety network by sharing security threat information between local governments in real-time and advancing AI-based threat detection and response systems, thereby establishing information security governance."

jjang@fnnews.com Jang Chung-sik Reporter