Busan-based Web3 cybersecurity company Anam145 is gaining attention as a leader in "anti-tampering," protecting core technologies in strategic national industries like defense, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors at the hardware level. The company is making headlines for transcending the limitations of existing software-centric security approaches and elevating security concepts to the industrial level, preventing technology leaks even when power is off.
According to cybersecurity industry sources on the 17th, Busan-based Anam145 is recognized for systematically accumulating anti-tampering technology, a technology whose research base was limited in Korea. Anam145 was founded based on the research findings of Professor Lee Jung-hee's research team at Korea University's Graduate School of Information Security.
Anti-tampering is a technology that detects unauthorized attempts to disassemble or manipulate equipment or core components, thereby preventing the leakage of internal information. Due to its high technical complexity and challenging implementation, research and application in Korea are extremely limited. Nevertheless, its importance is growing as a key security technology for protecting technological sovereignty across the defense and advanced industries.
The reason this technology is attracting attention is due to the structural limitations of existing security systems. Current discussions on technology protection focus on software encryption and network security. However, the security industry points out that it's difficult to prevent reverse engineering and information theft when equipment is exposed or physically disassembled.
In particular, if military drones or industrial equipment crash or are stolen during a mission, there is a significant risk that their flight path, control logic, and data structures could be exposed through internal component analysis even when powered off. This is a prime example of a security blind spot known as "after power-off." This has led to calls for hardware-level security.
Anam145 CEO Lee Jung-hee said, “We are still in the process of verifying the social significance and necessity of anti-tampering technology,” and added, “I hope that discussions on hardware security, especially anti-tampering technology, will expand further from the perspective of protecting national core technologies.”
