[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] Igloo Corporation, an AI-based security operations and analytics platform company, said on March 17 it launched Plot Arena, a hands-on cyber attack-and-defense training solution.

The company said the newly introduced Plot Arena is an intelligent attack-and-defense platform that deploys a virtual training network based on real security incident scenarios. It supports team-based competitive training optimized for an organization’s security maturity and goals.

Participants carry out attacker and defender roles in an environment identical to real-world conditions, including time-attack contests, simultaneous attack-and-defense confrontations, and resource-seizure scenarios. They switch roles by round and engage one another, enabling organizations to assess their cyber crisis management status and build an integrated collaboration system for real-world response.

Igloo Corporation’s security experts develop content spanning detection through post-incident analysis based on the latest attack patterns, attack surfaces and threat intelligence. The company said an AI attack simulator reproduces expert-level tactics, techniques and procedures, and flexibly changes attack paths depending on participant responses, helping strengthen response capabilities against sophisticated attacks that go beyond prediction.

Igloo Corporation said it will accelerate efforts to diversify its AI-based offensive security lineup, aimed at improving organizational defenses by finding vulnerabilities and seeking solutions from an attacker’s perspective. It will also step up development of automated security assessment solutions for penetration testing that can respond proactively to the latest vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks, and advance its incident response services.

Deuk-chun Lee (이득춘), chief executive of Igloo Corporation, said, "Security incidents happen in the field, not in theory. That is why practical training that can prevent real incidents, not training for training’s sake, is essential. Through providing an AI-based offensive security platform that brings together our proprietary security know-how accumulated by fighting attackers more than anyone else, and our core AI technologies, we will help more organizations build a standardized cyber defense system and secure mature, practical response capabilities."