Development of hi-technologies occurred fierce competition among companies in the domestic and worldwide. Sometimes the competition has skipped over national boundaries of the countries. This unlimited competition has sparked up an information securit...
Development of hi-technologies occurred fierce competition among companies in the domestic and worldwide. Sometimes the competition has skipped over national boundaries of the countries. This unlimited competition has sparked up an information security war. Therefore the problems of information leakage in key technologies have become a serious issue in the industrial security sector.
'Samsung Electronics Co.'s information leakage incident in 1998 was the beginning of recognition on the concept of keytechnology protection in Korea. In 1998, 'the law of protection on unfair competitions and sales secrets' was enacted and received national concerns. However, the limited punishment provisions and scattered related laws could not show effective power for protecting key technologies.
Recently, a complemented legislation has been enacted. 'The law for the prevention and protection of the leakage of industrial technologies' regulates key technology's outflows to the foreign countries, and unlawful information leakages of key technology. The issue of key technology protection is not only management problems of the private companies and individuals, but also protecting national wealth.
The purpose of this dissertation is to understanding current protection system of key hi-technologies and critical information leakages, and then to analyze why these problems have been occurred and how to find out the solutions for protecting the key technologies.
This study is focusing on the globalized companies and key technologies. Also other countries and private research institutes what they need to protect are in the scope of this study. Industrial scope of the study is manufacturing, distributions, and information technologies.
This dissertation approaches the issue from the position of emphasizing preventive/proactive measures against industrial espionage. Because industrial technology outflows by industrial spy could not be predictable. This dissertation has carried out by examining the reports and the analyses, of domestic and foreign literature and relevant agencies on industrial technology.
For the realities of industrial technology outflow, this dissertation has examined research papers by the National Intelligence and Small and Medium Business Administration, which are in charge of industrial technology's protection in Korea, and academic periodicals of the relevant members of the academic community. Also relevant agency's websites, magazines, newspaper articles, and statistics have been looked into in order to understand the current industrial technology outflow-related trends.
Especially this dissertation is completed policies with the question about how government and relevant agency cooperate against industrial technology outflow. Therefore I suggest some methods to solve the problems against industrial technology outflow.
Above all, it is necessary to establish network-system between government institutes or between related institutes in private area, to make these ways effective and to vitalize connection between facilities related with this matter. Especially, to be professional for dealing with the industrial technology outflow, The Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security should check and aid weak point of private area.
Furthermore, the government and private agency should expand an protection education of industrial technology, and give consultant on all related companies.
In conclusion, the way to protect key hi-technologies and to keep major resources safe from draining out is that the consortium of private-government-institute sector should cooperate and make an effort to seal up national wealth of key technologies. Especially private companies and institutes which are principle defense group should invest their efforts and power more to manage human resources. Because human part is the major sources of information leakage incident.