The Ministry of Education building at Government Complex Sejong / Yonhap
The Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) said Wednesday they will upgrade their artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity monitoring systems and extend coverage to private cloud services used by educational institutions for AI-based teaching and learning.
The Ministry of Education operates the Education Cyber Security Center, designating KERIS as its dedicated agency for 24/7 security monitoring and incident response across 435 educational institutions, including universities, public agencies and regional education offices.
The ministry said the AI-based automatic detection system — developed in-house and registered as Korea's first patent in AI-powered security monitoring — identified approximately 480 million cyberthreat indicators across those institutions in 2025. Of those, around 86,000 were confirmed as actual intrusions and addressed, a 36 percent increase from approximately 63,000 in 2024, before the system's latest round of enhancements.
The ministry and KERIS also announced the formal opening of the AI Cyber Security Center Thursday. The center will use AI to collect, analyze and respond to cyberattack data from educational institutions, while providing real-time monitoring of private cloud services, now used by 158 of the 435 monitored institutions.
Since July 2025, the ministry has been running a pilot program linking its detection infrastructure with three private cloud providers — NAVER, NHN and KT — with plans to expand testing to seven providers in 2026.
By December 2026, the ministry plans to train the AI system on log data from regional education offices to create a model better tuned to the education sector. From 2027, the system will be extended to regional education office security operations, enabling shared data collection, analysis and response across the entire educational network.
This article was published with the assistance of generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.
Source: Korea Times News
