Vietnam need to focus on reinforcing its cyber security to protect important information systems of the State and businesses, experts said.
A conference on cyber security to protect key national informational systems was held in HCM City on June 17. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam need to focus on reinforcing its cybersecurity to protect important information systems of the State and businesses,experts said.
Vietnam’s digital economy is expected to reach 43 billion USD by 2025. However,it has been facing many dangerous, complicated and large-scale cyberattacks.
The country is among the top 10 nations most exposed to cyber attacks andmalware, and ranked seventh in terms of countries with the most cyber crime victims.
Vietnam recorded nearly 5,500 instances of cyber attacks in the first fivemonths of the year, including malware attacks, phishing attempts and websitedefacement (changing visual appearance of a website).
During a conference on information security held on June 17, Colonel Do MinhKim, deputy head of Office 3 of the Cyber Security and Hi-tech Crime PreventionDepartment under the Ministry of Public Security, said that there have beenmany Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) conducted against crucial informationsystems of the State and businesses.
Cyber attacks mainly make use of security holes in routers, security software,online meeting applications, and public service portals.
They have caused a tremendous amount of damage to businesses’ cyber securityand operations, he said.
“Implementing national security strategies, and developing more cyber securityproducts and services for locals, businesses and organisations are very important.Ensuring cyber security is among Vietnam’s top priorities to facilitate digitaltransformation.”
Nguyen Van Tuan, information security consultant from VNPT InformationTechnology Company, said that information security risks can come from data harvestingsystems extracting data from databases.
Businesses and organisations need to be able to quickly detect anything thataccesses or queries into their databases that do not follow their informationsafety policies, and deal with them in a timely manner.
Databases also need to be kept up-to-date so that they can quickly recogniseinformation security risks and deploy countermeasures.
The conference was held in Ho Chi Minh City by the Cyber Security and Hi-techCrime Prevention Department and International Data Group Vietnam./.
VNA
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A conference on cyber security to protect key national informational systems was held in HCM City on June 17. (Photo: VNA)