Vietnam holds 2017 ASEAN CERT Incident Drill
PSNews-On September 11, the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) organized the 2017 ASEAN Computer Emergency Response Team Incident Drill (ACID) in Hanoi.
The drill themed “Preventing dangers from lack of authentication and weak access control” aimed to strengthen the capacity of units and agencies in responding to national network security incidents.
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| Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung |
The 2017 ACID has drawn the participation of CERTs from the 10 ASEAN countries and their partners, including the AusCERT, CERT Australia, CNCERT, CERT-IN, JPCERT and KrCERT.
This year’s drills are organized in Vietnam’s 3 major cities, including Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City with the participation of various leaders and officers in charge of cyber-security from different ministries, agencies, major ISP companies, enterprises and several organizations with important information infrastructures.
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The ACID 2017 is expected to provide the teams with a chance to practice skills for collecting, verifying, analyzing malicious behaviors; identifying malware sources and attackers; developing counter-measures, managing and restoring the system and sending warnings to concerned units.
Participating teams will be divided into two categories, namely Core Team and Practicing Team. The former one includes experts of VNCERT, BKAV, Viettel, VNPT, CMC Infosec and VNPT Technology.
In his opening speech, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung said that the event aims to maintain communication channels among the countries as well as enhance competence in dealing with possible future real cyber incidents, particularly skills in conducting investigations and analysis of malicious codes.
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Nguyen Khac Lich, Deputy Director of VNCERT, said the cyber-security situation in Vietnam has become complicated in the past time.
VNCERT has detected nine vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and issued a warning three weeks in before WannaCry malicious code outbreaks had spread worldwide.
By September 8, VNCERT coordinated with partners to successfully handle 1,762 phishing scams; 4,595 malware issues; and 3,607 deface attacks.
Lich also added 2017 ACID brings a great opportunity for VNCERT staff to familiarize themselves with and practice IT problem solving skills in new scenarios.
