1. National Information Security Index in Korea
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT #:
GSC14-PLEN-045
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
TTA
AGENDA ITEM:
Opening 6.3
CONTACT(S):
National Information Security Index in Korea
Heung Youl YOUM
Chairman of Korea ITU-T SG17 Committee, TTA
Geneva, July 2009

2. What is information security index?
Numerous efforts to measure the ICT performance and track progress and evaluate the ICT effect and use for governments, operators, researchers, and industries;
For example, ITU DI (Development Index), WEF NRI (Network Readiness Index);
However, there is only one Index in the information security area: Internet secure server.
Only deals with specific vendor’s SSL certificates, that is, lack of completeness.
The IS (Information Security) index can be regarded as metric to evaluate the current level of a country’s information security.
Geneva, July 2009

3. ITU-ICT Development Index
ITU ICT DI [March 2009]
Compares developments in ICT over a five-year period from
Based on 11 ICT indicators, grouped in 3 dimensions:
For ICT access potion;
Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants; Mobile cellular telephones per 100 inhabitants; International Internet bandwidth per Internet user; Proportion of households with a computer; Proportion of households with Internet access at home.
For ICT use portion;
Internet users per 100 inhabitants; Fixed broadband Internet subscriber per 1000 inhabitants; Mobile broadband subscriber per 100 inhabitants.
For ICT skill portion;
Adult literacy rate; Second gross enrolment ratio; Tertiary enrolment rate.
Geneva, July 2009

4. WEF NRI WEF NRI (Network Readiness Index)-2009
Measure the degree of preparation of a country to participate in and benefit from ICT developments, released in March, 2009.
48 indicators grouped into three dimensions;
For the environment portion;
Market environment; Political and regulatory environment; Infrastructure environment.
For readiness portion;
Individual readiness; Business readiness; Government readiness.
For the usage portion;
Individual usage; business usage; government usage.
Geneva, July 2009

5. Korea National Information Security Index
to evaluate the current status of the performance of IS and help policy makers in developing the further IS policies.
Twelve indicators, grouped into three categories:
For Infrastructure;
Firewall; IDS; Antivirus; Security Patch deployment; Internet secure server;
For Environment;
Awareness/training; IS Staff or manager; IS Budget;
For Negative impacts;
Security breaches; PI leakage; SPAM;
Geneva, July 2009

6. Challenges- What should we do?
No globally agreed Indices or Indicators in information security area;
Difficult to develop the indicators taking fast changing IS services and technologies into account;
No globally agreed IS indicators or IS index that can be used for comparison by many economies or countries;
No guarantee of accuracy of data collected by the economies for the indicators;
Necessary to develop the indices or indicators to help in measuring the performance of Information Security policy and track progress in Information Security.
Geneva, July 2009

7. Next Steps/Actions An IS index
a key toolkit for evaluating the performance of IS Policy and figure out the current status.
Proposed steps for developing the global IS index;
Identify the fundamental indicators for construction of the index;
Converting from absolute value to relative value;
Converting the indicators to index value;
Aggregate the index value;
ITU-T could be a suitable place to develop the globally agreed indicators for the IS index.
TTA plans to develop a domestic standards for this IS index, contribute to the globally agreed IS index or indicators in ITU-T.
Geneva, July 2009

8. Proposed Resolution
Proposed to modify Resolution GSC13/11: Cyber Security (revised) as follows;
In recognizing clause, add one item: “that the globally agreed IS indicators or indices play an critical role in measuring IS performance;”
In Resolves clause, add one item; “work with the ITU and others to develop the IS indices or indicators;”
Geneva, July 2009