PRESS RELEASE

SECURITY WORLD 2009

CONFERENCE & SHOWCASE

24-25 March 2009, Hanoi Daewoo Hotel

Hanoi, 24^th March 2009, the 4^th Security World 2009 Conference and Showcase will be held on 24-25 March, 2009 in Hanoi and co-organized by General Department of Technology - Ministry of Public Security (MoPS), Vietnam Computer Emergency Response (VNCERT) – Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) and International Data Group (IDG Vietnam).

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The growth of hi-tech criminals and virus in 2008

Number of virus strain has dramatically rise five times over 2007 and doubled increased attacked computers reached 60 millions compared with 33 millions of 2007.According to BKIS 2008 survey, 33.137 new type of virus has appeared in Vietnam, 99.8 percent among them are exotic while number of domestic virus strain is 36.

After two silent years, IT crime set to resume in Vietnam, there have been instances of attacks such as P.A Vietnam company domain theft, Techcomback website hacking, DDos attack,…

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Vietnamese security professionals are remarked

Vietnamese security professionals have been internationally remarked during 2008 that is represented by series of Vietnam’s security researches and warning post on leading IT website such as CNET, Cold, Computer World, and InformationWeek...
Given warnings of security related to global trademarks such as, Microsoft, Asus or Toshiba...The fact indicates that Vietnamese experts have capability of security performance.

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Government are increasingly enforcing laws and sanctions for security

Regulatory reforms and complement included legal terms related to hi-tech crime which will be approved and released by the National Assembly early 2010. Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Public Security (High-tech Crime Bureau - C15) have reformed and castigated these terms.

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“Red Alert” for banking security in 2008

The above judgment was released by M.G Nguyen Viet The, Director, IT Department, General Department of Technology, Ministry of Public Security at Banking and Security 2008 in TP HCM.

Around 161 website were attacked from early this year, two thirds of hackers are foreigner. Exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, cybercriminals destroyed several noted websites.

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Compulsory criteria for electronic trade

Digital certification and authentication are matters of controversy in Vietnam these days; they are regarded as key factors to successfully implement electronic trade. Recently, it’s demerit of security system caused by increasing financial fraud cases.

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Global heavy losses to insecure data

Last year, companies worldwide lost about $1 trillion to intellectual property theft and damage repair, an estimate McAfee calls conservative. The company warns that a weakened worldwide economy will just increase data theft in 2009.

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The value of information security

Ernst & Young's 2008 Global Information Security Survey (GISS), which canvassed nearly 1,400 senior executives in more than 50 countries, shows that most believe that a security incident would have a greater impact on reputation and brand than on revenues.

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Concern of 2009 is the inside data theft

Experts expect the threat to IP to worsen this year as the global economy worsens. The two main threats seem to be cyber gangs and "financially challenged" employees.

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The trend of security investment worldwide

A survey of IT security professionals conducted by Gartner has found that organisations in the Asia Pacific region spend a larger proportion of their IT budget on security than their North American and European counterparts.

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More than half of the security vulnerabilities going unpatched

74% of the security vulnerabilities disclosed during 2008 had no patches available from the vendor by the end of the year, according to a report released on Monday by IBM's X-Force research group.

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