South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT said 6 international standards and 2 technical reports proposed by Korea were finally approved at an ITU-T SG17 meeting in Geneva held from June 1 to 10. It said 14 new standardisation items were also approved and 7 international standards were pre-adopted. The approved standards include software supply chain security threats and security guidelines for digital collection services using distributed ledger technology.

Competition in the tech industry is being reshaped around AI agents, and security is increasingly moving with it. Companies including Snowflake are expanding into AI while stepping up security capabilities and governance. Microsoft unveiled an AI agent-based platform for automatically detecting software vulnerabilities and added automated device isolation to its endpoint security product. Workday introduced an independent verification feature for agent deployment, while Cisco strengthened security and governance for local AI agents.