The event was organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Digital Transformation Center in collaboration with the Information Security Association - Southern Branch (VNISA Southern Branch), taking place continuously for 5 days (December 17-21). The closing ceremony took place at 2:00 p.m. on December 24.
The purpose of the practical exercise program is important in improving the capacity and skills of detecting and handling incidents for the incident response team and the city's information security unit; promptly detecting weaknesses in human resources, technology, and processes to have measures to reinforce, improve, increase the ability to respond quickly and handle promptly when an attack occurs.
At the same time, the program will contribute to raising awareness and information security skills for IT staff of departments/agencies, districts, Thu Duc city, state-owned enterprises, hospitals, press agencies in Ho Chi Minh City...
Sharing at the event, Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Digital Transformation Center emphasized that network information security is not only a challenge, but also the foundation for sustainable development.
Technological advances are gradually changing the way we live, work and connect, but with that comes increasingly sophisticated risks that we need to face. “That is why today’s live-fire exercise program is extremely important to Ho Chi Minh City,” Mr. Chung emphasized.
According to the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2024 published by the International Telecommunication Union, Vietnam is ranked in the group of Tier 1 countries, the highest of 5 levels, which are the group of "exemplary" countries, demonstrating a strong commitment to cybersecurity.
However, in the first half of the year alone, at least four large enterprises in Vietnam became victims of ransomware, causing service disruptions and affecting finances and reputation.
For Ho Chi Minh City, the data center recorded 57,586,971 information security events in the first 9 months of 2024, including 768,325 policy violation events, 56,811,589 information collection attack events, and 7,057 malware infection and dissemination attack events.
Regarding the protection of terminal devices at agencies and units in Ho Chi Minh City in the first 9 months of 2024, the center recorded on the centralized management system for anti-malware in Ho Chi Minh City a total of 63,137 times of attack prevention (including 315 times of password information exploitation attacks, 62,822 times of security vulnerability exploitation attacks); the total number of malware detected and prevented on the entire system was 209,312 malware...
