PIOLINK (CEO Cho Young Cheol) will expand the security operation service. NHN Entertainment and its affiliates, operating Hangame, will expand the security operation service business 1year after the start of business.

IT infrastructure operation and security operation center business are the main business that PIOLINK has first started in the means of diversifying their business. In order to start new business, they have hired professional engineers and established the cloud business department.

The first half of last year, they have also made security operation center at their headquarters. The security control service went into official service in October last year after a trial period of six months. With experience and know-how from building security control service for online game, payment, and content service companies requiring high security because of DDoS and cyber terror, PIOLINK will actively pioneer foreign markets.

Lee Jang Rho, Managing director of PIOLINK cloud business manager says “We can offer security service with high quality since we have technology accumulated for ten years in the field of web security and have experienced professional engineers in the field of security control infrastructure, security, and infringement response which is established by cooperating with other companies.””we are actually maintaining the SLA with top class.” Mr. Lee showed a strong confidence towards pioneering foreign market.

The security operation center of PIOLINK is operated for 24hours 365days, based on the intelligent security control system infrastructure which is based on big data. In order to obtain fast and accurate threat detection & responsiveness, log analysis and cloud based malware & APT attack detection mechanism based on big data of Seculayer and Saint security, security companies invested by PIOLINK, are applied to the security control tower.

The security operation service provides specialized services such as violation accident prevention, detection, analysis, correspondence, reporting, and diagnosis of vulnerability based on various security system remote operation and rental service such as firewall, intrusion detection (IDS & IPS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) defense.

PIOLINK will also accelerate the cloud security operation service by using web application firewall technology know-how. PIOLINK, concentrating on remote security operation service will start the hybrid security control service including dispatched service from next year.

After two years, PIOLINK will challenge the “security operation specialist corporation” which is qualified for advancing to the public security service market. In order to be designated as the security operation specialist corporation, the equity capital should be at least 2 million USD and at least 15 technical engineers should be hired. Also, 2.7 million USD worth of security operation performance should be acquired.