AhnLab Recognized as 'South Korean Company of the Year' in Endpoint Security for 7 Consecutive Years
AhnLab has been named 'South Korean Company of the Year' in Endpoint Security for the seventh consecutive year by the global market research firm Frost & Sullivan. This recognition once again highlights the company’s long-standing technological excellence and market leadership.
This year’s award acknowledges AhnLab’s success in reducing the operational complexity many organizations face by implementing a platform-based endpoint security strategy. AhnLab’s single-agent security platform was particularly recognized for providing organic integration across security solutions, AI-based operational automation, and intelligence-driven detection and response within a single unified system.
With threats such as ransomware and supply chain attacks becoming more advanced and endpoint environments growing more diverse, the importance of a security strategy that delivers unified visibility, automation, and operational efficiency has increased. AhnLab has consistently addressed these needs through a unified offering strategy, expert-driven detection and response, customized consulting, and service offerings aligned with its products—enabling consistent, comprehensive resolution of complex customer security requirements.
Why AhnLab: Background Behind the Recognition
Frost & Sullivan stated, “AhnLab effectively responds to new security challenges and the rapidly changing market environment, demonstrating a vision to lead the future of security operations.” AhnLab was also included in the prestigious Best Practice Community, a group composed of global top-tier companies.
This community represents organizations in the top 1% of the global economy—leaders in innovation and digital transformation who collaborate with global investors, industry leaders, and partners, shaping discussions around the global economy, industrial transformation, and future technologies. AhnLab’s selection signifies global recognition of its domestically proven technological expertise, leadership, and innovation.
Reason #1: Leadership in Unified Endpoint Security Amid Advanced Threats
AhnLab has addressed the operational challenges customers face in environments where advanced threats—such as ransomware, supply chain attacks, and fileless attacks—coexist with PCs, servers, and remote-work endpoints. AhnLab EPP is built upon a single agent and a single management console, integrating antivirus (V3), patch management (EPP Patch Management), personal data protection (EPP Privacy Management), vulnerability assessment (EPP Security Assessment), device control (EPP Device Control), and EDR.
This integration reduces licensing redundancies, eliminates fragmented management, and lowers operational burden that often arise when using multiple vendors. It effectively delivers unified visibility, automation, and operational efficiency—the core needs of customers.
AhnLab also provides MDR Basic to EDR customers, allowing organizations with limited security staff to utilize expert-driven detection and response capabilities. This approach directly addresses long-standing customer requirements that other vendors have struggled to meet.
In addition, by integrating its threat intelligence platform AhnLab TIP with XDR/EDR, AhnLab supports contextual analysis and priority scoring (XDR Scoring), resolving the common challenge of “too many alerts with unclear response priorities.”
AhnLab has also improved chronic market-wide issues, such as patch reliability and performance degradation from data protection processes. EPP Patch Management and PatchLab provide pre-validated patches, while EPP Privacy Management’s “Neuron Search” technology reduces operational risks and performance overhead.
Furthermore, AhnLab provides region-specific intelligence—especially for Korea and Asia-Pacific APT threats—through TIP, XDR, and EDR. The company has also validated its world-class detection capabilities through five consecutive years of MITRE ATT&CK evaluations.
Reason #2: Proactive Innovation Combining AI, Threat Intelligence, and Automation
AhnLab views AI, automation, and localization as key megatrends reshaping future security operations. Building on its strengths in threat intelligence and XDR/EDR, the company has developed a next-generation security platform vision centered on Agentic AI, including:
• AhnLab AI PLUS, an Agentic AI-based security analytics platform
• AhnLab Annie, an AI security assistant
AhnLab has trained its AI systems with over 30 years of threat analysis data and real-world incident response cases. The result is a system that automatically analyzes and explains security events and suggests response actions and investigation steps. This alleviates SOC fatigue, mitigates workforce shortages, and enables even small organizations to maintain advanced security operations.
AI and automation permeate every stage of intelligence-driven operations—Detection → Analysis → Response → Threat Hunting—through the TIP–XDR–EDR–MDR ecosystem. Annie and AI PLUS standardize and automate workflows via playbooks and guided procedures. TIP integrates IoCs from the dark web, deep web, and supply chain, allowing organizations to understand potential internal impact in advance.
This structure simultaneously delivers proactive defense, operational efficiency, and localized intelligence, going beyond simple feature enhancements.
AhnLab has already implemented this vision across products and services. Led by ASEC (AhnLab Security Intelligence Center), the company has built an intelligent ecosystem across TIP, XDR, EDR, MDR, and AI PLUS. Annie is actively supporting real-world customer operations.
AhnLab also incorporates intelligence tailored to Korean and East Asian regulations and threat environments, and expanded globally by establishing Rakeen, a joint venture with Saudi Arabia’s SITE.
Reason #3: Market-Proven Trust and Global Competitiveness
AhnLab’s leadership is reflected not only in its technology but also in its market results, brand trust, and global business expansion.
Customers praise AhnLab for its:
• high detection rates, rapid response, and stability
• fast technical support and updates
• comprehensive operational experience that integrates products and services
This demonstrates that AhnLab’s security partnership model—spanning consulting, deployment, operation, and support—is effectively delivering value beyond simple product sales.
With more than 30 years of proven expertise and strong trust in the domestic market, AhnLab has built the position of a “reliable and innovative security partner.” The company is recognized as a first mover in combining EPP/EDR, TI, XDR, and AI in Korea, while accelerating global expansion through initiatives like the Saudi joint venture.
Frost & Sullivan noted that AhnLab continues to expand its portfolio at the forefront of innovation and growth, elevating the standard of Korea’s endpoint security market—even amid rapid technological shifts and evolving competitive landscapes.
Vivien Pua, Senior Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, stated:
“Together, these innovations demonstrate that AhnLab is not merely layering features onto legacy frameworks but systematically resolving customer frustrations — from complexity and cost to reliability and local relevance. By focusing on unmet needs that global vendors often overlook, the company positions itself as a pragmatic problem solver and an innovation leader in endpoint security.”
Sang-Kook Lee, Head of Marketing & Global Business at AhnLab, said:
“Being named 'South Korean Company of the Year' in Endpoint Security for seven consecutive years reflects the excellence of our unified security platform, built on 30 years of technical expertise and a customer-centric philosophy. We will continue prioritizing real-world customer challenges and remain committed to delivering leading security solutions.”
