Korea Internet & Security Agency
South Korea internet organization
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The Korea Internet & Security Agency (Korean: 한국인터넷진흥원; Hanja: 韓國인터넷振興院; RR: Hangug Inteones Jinheungwon, KISA) is the Ministry of Science and ICT's sub-organization dealing with the allocation and maintenance of South Korea's IPv4/IPv6 address space (and the related WHOIS information), Autonomous System Numbers, and the .kr country code top-level domain (ccTLD), and also responsible for the cybersecurity of the Internet within South Korea, and runs the Korea Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center, a.k.a. KrCERT/CC, for the private sector of the country.
The organization was created in July 2009, as three different agencies were merged into one organization: the Korea Information Security Agency (KISA), the National Internet Development Agency (NIDA) and the Korean IT International Cooperation Agency (KIICA).[1]
KrCERT/CC, which is an internal division of KISA. It cooperates and interacts locally with the National Cyber Security Center in the National Intelligence Service of Korea, and . It also interacts with other national CSIRTs and global cybersecurity vendors.
See also
- National Cyber Security Center (South Korea)
- National Cyber Security Centre (disambiguation) in other countries