Vietnam's Information Security Index increased by 7.4%

On December 1, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Information Security Day 2015 Conference took place with the theme "Devastating destructive trends of modern cyber attacks" co-organized by the Vietnam Information Security Association, the Department of Information Security (ATTT) - Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), the Department of Information Technology (IT) - Ministry of National Defense and the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Center.

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung said that we are living in the Internet era, in which almost all data and information are exchanged through cyberspace. The emergence of new technology trends such as big data, cloud computing, integration and convergence of social media, mobile, Internet of things... are creating great opportunities for users but on the other hand, there are also increasing risks of information insecurity and cybercrime.

According to the Global Rick 2015 report (published in February 2015) at the World Economic Forum, 90% of companies worldwide admit that they are not well prepared to protect themselves from cyber attacks. The damage caused by cybercrime to the global economy is up to more than 400 billion USD/year.

Vietnam Information Security Day 2015 attracted many experts and speakers to attend.

In Vietnam, there are still some problems such as the awareness and work of ensuring information security is still passive. Actual surveys show that many agencies, organizations and enterprises in Vietnam are lax, hardly applying minimum measures to ensure minimum information security and do not have standard operating procedures to respond when incidents occur. The legal system, national standards and technical regulations on information security are still lacking and incomplete, so there is no basis for applying management measures as well as technical measures that many advanced countries in the world have been applying. At the same time, there is currently no effective coordination process between forces in preventing, coordinating and handling network information security incidents.

In addition, according to international organizations, Vietnam is always on the list of countries with a high rate of malware and malicious code infection. This problem causes great damage and poses many future risks and dangers, significantly affecting the image and trust level of Vietnam in the digital world.

At the workshop, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung also pointed out a number of necessary contents to be implemented in the coming time, namely: Further enhancing the awareness of all agencies, organizations, businesses and all people about information security; focusing on training human resources, especially young people; building and perfecting the legal corridor for information security fields. In particular, Vietnam also needs to create an effective coordination mechanism between departments, branches and localities in ensuring information security, handling cyber security incidents; at the same time, strengthening drills and coordinating incident response handling at different scales and levels.

Also at the Conference, Mr. Vu Quoc Thanh, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) announced the Vietnam Information Security Index 2015 - VNISA Index 2015. Accordingly, the average index of Vietnam reached 46.5%, although below the average of 50%, but compared to 2014, there was a clear step forward, an increase of 7.4%.

At the conference, large corporations and companies in the world such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM... shared experiences, solutions and tools in ensuring information security for key national information systems.

According to QĐND