South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT held an emergency issue-sharing meeting with information security firms in connection with Anthropic and OpenAI recently launching projects that use their latest artificial intelligence models for cybersecurity.

The ministry held a relay meeting on April 14 with chief information security officers from the three telecom operators and major platform companies, along with domestic AI security experts. It then held a meeting with major domestic information security companies from 10 a.m. on April 15 to further discuss the impact on the industry, opportunities and ways to advance the sector.

At the meeting, industry officials including Jin-su Kim (김진수), chairman of the Korea Information Security Industry Association, said companies should assume AI-driven security threats as a constant and establish zero-trust security systems across companies and institutions. They also asked the government to review AI-driven security threats in terms of strengthening software supply-chain security and to help reduce security gaps among small and medium-sized companies.

The ministry is set to hold a meeting from 4 p.m. on April 15 with chief information security officers from 40 major companies, in addition to telecom and platform firms, and urge them to check their readiness for AI cybersecurity.

Woo-hyuk Choi (최우혁), director general for information security and network policy at the ministry, said the emergence of high-performance AI-based cybersecurity services such as Mythos requires attention and responses from the information security sector and key industries. He said the government will work to turn the issue into an opportunity to strengthen and grow the industry's cybersecurity response capabilities.