AhnLab will invest KRW 100 billion in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector over the next three years to shift its security operations to an AI-centered model. On the 16th, AhnLab held a press conference at the Westin Seoul Chosun Parnas in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and announced this strategy.

On the same day, AhnLab also unveiled “AhnLab AI Plus,” a security framework that connects data and threat information generated from multiple security products with AI’s decisions and responses into a single integrated system. Kang Suk-kyoon, CEO of AhnLab, said, “We plan to redesign all our products, services, and security operations around AI to reinvent ourselves as an AI-native security platform company.”

AhnLab plans to go beyond having AI merely assist security personnel with analysis, instead enabling AI to directly investigate threats and identify response measures. Among alerts generated by various security products, AI will select which risks to prioritize, search for additional related information, and trace the attack flow. It will then propose necessary actions such as blocking or isolation. Actual execution will take place within the scope defined by the customer. In certain security operations center (SOC) tasks where AI has been applied, average alert handling time has decreased by about 60%, from 5 minutes to 2 minutes.

The company will also shift its product sales model to a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based subscription format. The plan is to allow customers to start with only the security functions they need and expand the scope as necessary, thereby growing into overseas markets as well. AhnLab presented a target of KRW 1 trillion in revenue by 2035, with overseas sales accounting for more than 30%.

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