Scene at the opening ceremony of the drill (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – One hundred teams from across Vietnam are taking part in abiggest ever cyber-attack drill, which runs in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi MinhCity from December 18 to 21.
Co-organisedby the Authority of Information Security and the Vietnam Computer EmergencyResponse Team (VNCERT), the drill updates public technicians on solutions topreventing and countering advanced persistent threat (APT), while equippingthem with skills and knowledge to get ready for real-life attacks to importantnational information infrastructure.
Speaking atthe opening ceremony, Nguyen Khac Lich, deputy head of the VNCERT, saidstimulation drills in recent years showed limitations when it comes to concerningdangerous and complex APT attacks.
This year,VNCERT, for the first time, has launched a new model where participants canpractice both defence and attack skills in a selected working data. They arenot allowed to destroy and shutdown the data, and to cause information leaks.
DeputyMinister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung said he expectsparticipating teams will continue joining hands to build a safe and trustfulcyberspace.
According tothe VNCERT, Vietnam has so far this year recorded nearly 400 millioncyber-security-related events. There were 9,344 cyber-attacks, including 2,499phishing, 5,018 deface and 1,764 malware attacks.
Firstappearing at the end of 2010, APT attacks, in which a person or group gainsunauthorised access to a network and remains undetected for an extended period,are one of the top threats to information security.
Statisticsshow that more than 27 percent of the attacks targeted government institutions,followed by those hitting banking and financial institutions andtelecommunication firms with a large customer database.
Vietnam hasseen a number of APT attacks on big organisations, most notably an attack onVietnam Airlines’ data in July last year.-VNA
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