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AhnLab ASEC has gathered Excel files that leak user info using malicious macro. The Excel file prompts the user to run macro, and when macro is run, it re-runs the Excel document that contains a court decision stating that the user ‘must pay a fine for abetting a breach on the Act On Door-To-Door Sales, etc. To make it difficult for the users to realize that their PC is infected. CEO Suk-Kyoon Kang is a management expert who has been appointed to a variety of major positions in Korean and overseas IT companies and global management consulting companies. CEO Suk- Kyoon Kang joined AhnLab in 2013 as the Head of Strategic Business Division (Executive Director) and was promoted to AhnLab's domestic business general manager. The AhnLab Technical Assistance Center provides service to both Standard and Premium users, with modalities including live chat, email, and telephone support as well as onsite training and access to the web-based TAC portal. Ahnlab Incorporated reported sales of 166.99 billion Korean Won (US$147.45 million) for the year ending December of 2019. This represents an increase of 4.5% versus 2018, when the company's sales were 159.82 billion Korean Won. This was the fourth straight year of sales growth at Ahnlab Incorporated. AhnLab V3 Endpoint Security is a comprehensive endpoint protection that allows businesses to protect important business assets with greater confidence and agility. AhnLab V3 Endpoint Security is one of the most cost-effective and user-friendly endpoint protection solutions available in the market.
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AhnLab suffered many challenges even before the establishment, but now proudly celebrates its 10 year anniversary. A company has a 5-year survival rate of 10% so the 10-year survival rate is merely 1%. Considering that the survival rate of a venture company is less than one-tenth of that of a general company, AhnLab has withstood the probability of less than 0.1%. I believe that the key to the survival and the development of AhnLab was due to not only the efforts of all of us, but also the help of others who were with us through the good and bad. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to all of you.
When I started thinking about my own business ten years ago, I thought a lot about the meaning of a business. Being a doctor and a programmer back then, I was comfortable in my own profession but was completely oblivious to the world of business and management. So, understanding the definition of a business was important to me as I am a person who works for a reason, a value that my heart calls for. The most basic function of a company is to be a location where involved members spend time and discover themselves. But this alone is not much different from being a freelancer. After arranging my thoughts, I came to a personal conclusion that the true meaning of working in a company or an organization is the ability to do valuable work together that cannot be accomplished individually.
However, I also questioned the universally acknowledged notion that the purpose of a company is to generate profit. But if we apply the backward reasoning, in order for a company to generate profit, it needs to create a product or service whose value can be recognized by its customers, and then sell it. Then, the key goal lies in the accomplishing a result, not profit. We witness problems in our society that arise from companies with the sole goal to generate profit regardless of the means. And perhaps the conflicts of human history are caused by the confusion of what should be the purpose and what should be the result. This is why I believe in the idea that a company’s profit is harvests from the results –in line with the wisdom to stay true and keep persistent for the result to follow.