VietNamNet Bridge - With the Information Security Index at 59.9 percent, up by 13.5 percent in comparison with last year, the index has exceeded the average level for the first time.


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The indexes were 37.3 percent in 2013, 39 percent in 2014 and 47.4 percent in 2015.

The index figure was announced by VNISA (the Vietnam Information Security Association) which conducted a nine-month survey of 692 institutions and enterprises in Hanoi, Da Nang and HCM City.

Of these, 13 percent were central administration organizations, 18 percent local administration organizations, 1 percent non-government organizations, 33 percent private businesses in non-IT fields, 11 percent IT private businesses, 7 percent state-owned non-IT businesses, 2 percent state-owned IT businesses, 9 percent foreign-invested enterprises and 6 percent other subjects.

According to Vu Quoc Khanh from VNISA, Vietnam’s Information Security Index is built in accordance with South Korea’s model.

Khanh said he still has no information about South Korea’s Information Security Index this year, but thinks Vietnam’s index would be lower than South Korea’s. 

Many years ago, South Korea’s index was higher than 60 percent. 

Meanwhile, network security organizations have reported many large-scale attacks recently. 

In November 2016, Vietnamworks, a job website which serves 1.3 million job seekers a month and 8,000 businesses a year, was the victim of an intentional attack.

Prior to that, in September 2016, a lot of newspapers and news websites such as Nguoiduatin.vn, doisongphapluat.com, tin techz.vn and tinmoi.vn were attacked. 

With the Information Security Index at 59.9 percent, up by 13.5 percent in comparison with last year, the index has exceeded the average level for the first time.

Later, the attacks were reported as targeting the websites of VFF, Sinh Vien Viet Nam newspaper and Athena, a network security center.

In July 2016, the website of Vietnam Airlines, the nation’s flag air carrier, suffered from a deface attack, which was described as an ‘extremely serious attack’. 

The information about 400,000 passengers of the Golden Lotus Program was exposed. At the same time, the loudspeaker systems at the Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat Airports were hijacked.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) in 2015 recognized 31,500 incidents (phishing, deface and malware), while 1.45 million IP addresses in Vietnam were in Botnet. 

In the first six months of 2016 alone, the number of incidents increased by 4.4 times compared with 2015 (8,758 phishing cases, 77,160 deface and 41,712 malware cases).

Trieu Tran Duc, CEO of CMC Infosec, said a business or organization will not be able to act single-handedly to fight against cyber attacks; therefore, the state needs to gather highly capable experts in security, including white-hat hackers, to do that. 

An important event for white-hat hackers will take place in mid-December. WhiteHat Grand Prix 2016, to be organized by BKAV, will gather 500 teams from 67 countries and territories.


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