Korean cybersecurity companies are ramping up their artificial intelligence strategies as AI-powered cyber threats intensify. The industry's approach: fight AI with AI.
By delegating security functions such as threat detection and response to AI, these firms aim to boost security efficiency for their corporate clients. Major players including AhnLab and Raonsecure have made AI transformation their top priority this year, launching company-wide initiatives.
Raonsecure, an AI security and authentication platform company, announced on the 24th that it has elevated its internal AI Research Lab to a full AI Business Division, officially launching its "AI-centered management roadmap." As its first project, the company plans to develop and release an agentic AI-based security automation platform within the year.
The platform will handle the full spectrum of enterprise security operations—from access management and threat detection to response measures and analysis reporting—all powered by AI.
The company expects that adopting this platform will improve security personnel efficiency, allowing them to focus on more complex decision-making. To enhance platform safety, Raonsecure is also developing AAM (Agent Authentication Management) technology to manage agentic AI identity and permissions, along with an "Agentic AI Guardrail" system to block abnormal access attempts.
Raonsecure is not alone in putting AI at the forefront of its services.
AhnLab, Korea's largest cybersecurity firm, designated "AI-centered transformation" as its key initiative for 2025 at last month's new year ceremony. The company had already launched AhnLab AI Plus, its agentic AI security technology, in April 2024, applying it to services including AhnLab XDR. After integrating AI technology into its V3 antivirus product line for PCs, the system now detects an average of more than 130,000 new malware samples daily. This year, AhnLab plans to expand AhnLab AI Plus to additional services including remote security monitoring and penetration testing.
Jiransoft Security is currently developing technology that applies AI to its email security and content disarmament services to automatically detect and remove malicious code. The company aims to launch the service in the second half of this year and acquired AI solution developer Subsoft last year to support this goal.
This industry-wide shift comes as AI agent technology has emerged as a dominant trend, bringing heightened security risks. Given that AI agents operate autonomously without user intervention, cyberattacks can spread faster and more broadly than ever before.
A recent Samsung SDS survey of 667 IT security professionals found that 81.2% of respondents identified "AI-based threats" as the factor that will have the greatest impact on corporate security this year.
"As both AI-powered cyber threats and AI-based security grow in importance, advancing domestic security technology has become urgent," said Yeom Heung-ryeol, emeritus professor of information security at Soonchunhyang University. "This trend will become even more pronounced as demand for corporate security rises following personal data breach incidents."