SANDS Lab and Germany’s Fraunhofer Pursue Cybersecurity’s Fundamental Values
A shared commitment to development drives core technology exchange and cooperation. The partnership advances international security cooperation alongside technology, focusing on deep malware analysis, stronger tracing capabilities, and a new AI-based technical framework.
SANDS Lab and Germany’s Fraunhofer Pursue Cybersecurity’s Fundamental Values
- A shared commitment to development promotes core technology exchange and cooperation
- Contributing to international security cooperation beyond technological progress
- Focusing on deep malware analysis and stronger tracing capabilities to establish a new AI-based framework
Figure 1. Representatives of both organizations pose after concluding the agreement.
From left: Lee Hyun-jong, researcher on SANDS Lab’s AI Technology Development Team; Daniel, researcher at Fraunhofer FKIE; and Sung Han-kyu, senior manager on SANDS Lab’s Overseas Business Team.
Cyber threat intelligence specialist SANDS Lab (KOSDAQ: 411080; CEO Kim Ki-hong) explored cooperation in November in Bonn, Germany, home to Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie (FKIE), part of Europe’s largest applied research organization.
Fraunhofer researches applied technologies for future markets and needs, including AI, next-generation computing, and quantum technology, for use throughout society. FKIE, one of its specialized institutes, conducts research in ICT, security, and embedded systems.
The meeting was especially meaningful because it grew out of researchers’ presentations on shared topics at the UK’s VB2023 conference in October, where both sides impressed one another and arranged to meet. At a time when international cybersecurity cooperation is increasingly important, the collaboration led to a new technology agreement.
The agreement focuses on exchanging and cooperating on core technologies grounded in cybersecurity’s fundamental values, beyond applied technology and commercial products. Its central purpose is a shared commitment to technology needed for incident response and proactive defense.
It places particular emphasis on deep malware analysis and stronger tracing capabilities. The main goal is a new AI-based framework that predicts and responds to emerging threats by analyzing characteristics within code, beyond merely labeling files malicious or benign.
SANDS Lab introduced DBP (Deep Binary Profiler), its binary reverse-engineering-based attacker profiling technology recently presented at AVAR2023 in Dubai, and its newly launched CTX threat intelligence service. Fraunhofer introduced the open malware knowledge service Malpedia and shared research. The teams actively exchanged findings and discussed concrete plans and expected benefits of cooperation.
The organizations expect complementary joint research combining SANDS Lab’s AI infrastructure with Fraunhofer’s human expertise to advance their technology together.
Sung Han-kyu of SANDS Lab’s Overseas Business Team said, “This cooperation gives us an opportunity to advance cybersecurity technology and take another step forward in addressing global threats. It will contribute not only technical achievements but also to security cooperation and development in the international community.”
Figure 2. Representatives shake hands after concluding the agreement.
From left: SANDS Lab AI researcher Lee Hyun-jong, Overseas Business Team senior manager Sung Han-kyu, and Fraunhofer FKIE researcher Daniel.