South Korea Expands AI Cybersecurity to Safeguard Cloud-Based Education Systems

South Korea's Ministry of Education and KERIS are expanding AI-driven cybersecurity for the education sector, launching an AI Cyber Safety Center (April 23, 2026) to provide centralized, real-time monitoring—including private cloud environments—and piloting integrations with cloud providers (NAVER, NHN, KT) with plans to expand. The internally developed detection system reported ~480 million potential indicators in 2025 and ~86,000 confirmed intrusions, and the ministry intends to further train AI models on regional log data for sector-specific threat detection.