A seminar on computer incident emergency response held in Hanoi on
October 30 drew the participation of many domestic and foreign experts.
The event, organised by the Ministry of Information and
Communications (MIC) in conjunction with the World Bank, aimed to build a
mechanism for coordinating domestic and international response in this
field.
Addressing the seminar, MIC Deputy Minister Nguyen
Minh Hong said information security has become a hot topic in recent
years following a range of serious incidents such as the Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attack targeting several major websites in
Vietnam last July.
The incident has raised the alarm over
the existence of a network of affected computers which were used for bad
purposes in Vietnam, the Deputy Minister said.
Given
the situation, the ministry is accelerating the building of a legal
framework with priority given to drafting a Law on Information Security
which is scheduled to be submitted to the Government early next year, he
noted.
The deputy minister also revealed that an Information Security Department will be established soon.
In addition, the ministry has partnered with relevant agencies and
organisations to conduct several plans on inspecting and removing
harmful software in domestic computer networks.
An array of
programmes, seminars and exercises have also been conducted in order to
raise public awareness about the problem and enhance response capacity
of cyber security workers, he said.
At the seminar, experts
proposed basic and effective measures to counter information security
threats as well as to response when such attacks occur.-VNA