TVING said on Oct. 14 it has appointed Kook Tae-ho (국태호) as its chief information security officer (CISO) to advance its information security framework.

The new CISO is a specialist who has handled information security and personal data protection work for about 20 years across industries including large companies, platforms, game firms and startups.

Born in 1978, he graduated from the business administration department of Hongik University and worked at Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance, NCsoft and Nu Skin Korea. He later served as CISO and chief privacy officer (CPO) at Yogiyo and Today’s House.

He has hands-on experience responding to a range of security threats, including building and operating security organizations, ransomware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, insider data leaks and cloud breaches.

TVING plans to use the appointment to advance its information security management system and strengthen preventive response capabilities to security threats and its level of user protection.

A TVING official said, "We expect Kook to play a pivotal role in advancing the overall information security system and strengthening proactive security response capabilities and the level of user protection based on his information security and personal data protection expertise built across diverse industries and organizations."