At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top South Korea based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
SooWoo Lee
CEO/founder of Remo+
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About Honest Technology Co., Ltd., Remo+: At remo+, we build smart home security products to make reliable security more accessible and easy to use.
John Choi
President & CEO of MarkAny
John Choi is one of three researchers who founded MarkAny as a start-up and government’s funded academic lab in 1999 and named as President and CEO on wards by recognition of significant endeavor to promote international business. In his role, he has successfully launched numerous high – tech products to the global marketplace and taken a thoughtful leadership in the company’s overall technology strategy and management of anti-piracy efforts as well as MarkAny’s advanced technology research and intellectual property development. He has spent more than forty years in the digital security and anti-piracy industry as a professor and entrepreneur with extensive knowledge of data security, content protection, as well as forensic watermarking technology. He served former leader of Korea Institute of Science and Technology or KIST to lead Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab and is a professor of software and signal processing at Sang Myung University in Seoul. John holds his Ph.D. in Management Information System (MIS) from University of South Carolina in the States after earning bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Aju University in Republic of Korea.
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About MarkAny: MarkAny, Korea’s pioneer in data security solution, is continuously contributing to the evolution of smart security service for data assets.
Sean Woo
Founder and CEO of Go-Qual
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About Go-Qual: Go-Qual is a Korean startup providing home network systems and security alarm systems.
Lim Chasung
Founder & CEO of Seculetter
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About Seculetter: SecuLetter is a cutting-edge solution of SecuLetter is able to detect unknown attacks with hybrid approaches,static and dynamic analysis.
Ha Youngbin
CEO and Founder of Everspin
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About Everspin: Cybersecurity company that invented the world’s first dynamic security module.
Ki-Hyeok Bae
CEO of CK&B Co.Ltd.,
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About CK&B Co.Ltd.,: IT Company specialized in field of security, brand protection, product authenticity, data hiding, watermarking, and DRM.
Heechun Kim
CEO of HAURI
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About HAURI: HAURI offer virus detection software (ViRobot) for servers (Windows/Unix), mail gateways (Domino/Exchange) and desktop environments.
Suik Hwang
CEO of Security Platform Inc.
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About Security Platform Inc.: Hardware based device security solution provider for lightweight IoT devices. Intrinsic Security of Things (SoT), Security-by-Design.