Samsung Electronics tops investment in information protection, KT Coupang and others also rank high in South Korea

On the 10th, the South Korean Ministry of Science, Technology, and Information Communication released the ``Analysis Report on the Status of Information Protection Published in 2023.'' The report is based on the content announced in 2023, and is based on the 701
The analysis analyzed the amount of companies' information protection-related investments, the number of people in charge, and changes from the previous year among the 613 companies that disclosed information for two consecutive years.
The total investment amount related to information protection by the companies analyzed was approximately 1.85 trillion yen.
It was 2.6 billion won (approximately 203,675,480,000 yen), an increase of 20.9% from the previous year. The average investment amount by industry was 6.9 billion won (approximately 758.58 million yen) for the financial industry and 5.7 billion won (approximately 758.58 million yen) for the information and communications industry.
630.51 million yen), and 2.5 billion won (approximately 274.85 million yen) for wholesale and retail. The company that invested the most in information protection was 243.5 billion won (approximately 26,770.47 million yen).
It was Samsung Electronics that invested. This was followed by KT with 103.5 billion won (approximately 11,378.82 million yen) and Coupang with 63.9 billion won (approximately 7,025.18 million yen).
The number of people in charge of information protection within a company is approximately 6,891.5, an increase of 17.6% from the previous year, and the average number of persons in charge per company is approximately 9.83, an increase of 8.6% from the previous year.
increased. The average number of people in charge of information protection in the seven major industries is 23.35 in the information and communications industry, 17.41 in the financial industry, and 9.03 in the wholesale and retail industry, with many of the top 10 companies in the information and communications industry.
It was a karma. By company, Samsung Electronics topped the list with 904.2 people, followed by KT with 303.8 people and Samsung SDS with 225.3 people.