At the workshop (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Representativesof Vietnamese and Israeli businesses shared their experiences in cyber securityat a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on July 30.
In Vietnam, around 27percent of recent cyber attacks targeted the country’s key sectors, namely telecommunicationsand banking. Vietnam is also among those countries worldwide suffering from ahigh number of attacks on industrial infrastructure, with over 735,000 computersinfected with malicious codes during the first five months of 2018, heard theworkshop.
According to Ngo Vi Dong,Vice President of the Vietnam Information Security Association, informationsecurity and safety in Vietnam has been improved, however, potential risksremain, especially for small-and medium-sized enterprises.
Yaniv Tessel, head of theEconomic and Trade Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Vietnam, said businesses,particularly larger ones, need to be ahead of the game with cyber security andinformation safety.
Participating Israeli firmsare ready to cooperate with Vietnam in cyber security activities, he said.
Israel is the world’ssecond largest exporter of cyber security technologies, following the US. Thecountry now has 300 companies operating in the field of cyber security.
Ruth Shoham, ExecutiveDirector of the Capacity Building Division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, said Israel and Israelibusinesses have paid close attention to cyber security development.
At theworkshop, Vietnamese and Israel’s leading IT firms – namely CyberArk, BeyondSecurity, Claroty, Cyberbit, Ericom, and Skybox Security – sought ways tocooperate in this sphere for the time to come. –VNA
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