Speaker
KIM Sojeong
Affliation
Institute for National Security Strategy
Title
Director, Emerging Security Studies
Session
Strengthening North Korea Sanctions in Cyber and Maritime Domains

Biography

Dr. So Jeong KIM is a senior research fellow and the director of Emerging Security part of the Institute for the National Security Strategy. She is currently an advisor in the science and technology field of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an advisor to the Korea-U.S. Cyber Security Working Group. Before joining INSS, she worked at the NSR(National Security Research Institute from 2004 as team lead. Since joining NSR in 2004, she led the cybersecurity policy team and provides recommendations on cybersecurity policy and regulatory issues. She was involved in drafting South Korea’s National Cyber Security Strategy, published in April 2019. She was also involved in the 4th and 5th UN Information Security Group of Governmental Experts as an adviser, and the MERIDIAN process as an adviser and organizer. Her main research area is various policy issues regarding national cybersecurity policy such as international norm setting processes, Confidence Building Measures, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, law and regulations, national cybersecurity capacity evaluation methodology development, etc. Her recent paper is about the evaluation of cyberattack severity and proposing national response matrix.