Viettel provides educational personnel with information security knowledge

PANO - The military-run telecom group, Viettel, and the Department of Information Technology (IT) under the Ministry of Education and Training on January 4 opened a two-day training course on information security knowledge and skills for IT personnel of the educational sector.

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At the training course

This was among the activities realizing the cooperation agreement between the group and the Ministry of Education and Training on IT and telecommunications in the 2017-2020 period.

During this first-ever national-level training course, nearly 100 trainees were provided with basic knowledge of and skills in information security, such as information security challenges facing state agencies in general, and the education sector in particular, as well as new approaches to information security and services.

They also exchanged measures to keep information security and localities’ experiences on building information security projects.

According to the Global Cybersecurity Index in 2017 by the International Telecommunication Union, in the first six months of 2017, Vietnam ranked 100th out of 193 member countries on ensuring cyber security with 0.245 points.

In Vietnam, IT has been applied widely in educational agencies and establishments. Therefore, due attention must be paid to information security to avoid negative impacts on millions of involved people.

Translated by Mai Huong