Hanoi (VNA) - Ensuring cybersecurity is considered a key factor for asuccessful and sustainable digital transformation, and at the same time, aninseparable part of digital transformation, Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’sEconomic Commission Nguyen Duc Hien said at a cybersecurity summit.

TheVietnam Security Summit 2020 was held in Hanoi on November 10 by the Party CentralCommittee’s Economic Commission and the Ministry of Information andCommunications.

Featuringthe theme 'Cybersecurity in the AI and Big data era', the summit shedlight on the latest security trends and considerations for digitalgovernments and modern-day enterprises, including national criticalinfrastructure defence, next-gen enterprise cyber protection and customers’data assurance.

Digitaltransformation had led to an increase in the number of internet of thingsdevices and generated a large amount of data, said Hien.

Datahad become an important resource of the country and of each organisationand individual, along with that, the risks of information and data theft and destructionwere increasing, Hien added.

Cyberattackers also exploited the strengths of artificial intelligence and bigdata in cyber-attack techniques and malware would become smarter withphishing technology based on artificial intelligence, he noted.

"Realityshows that we are facing increasingly dangerous and sophisticated cyberattacks. Each agency, organisation, business and user must always be ready torespond to threats in cyberspace,” said Hien.

Sharingthe same viewpoint, Colonel Nguyen Dang Luc, Vice Chairman of the GovernmentCipher Committee, said cyber-attacks and crime had increased recently to stealdata, State confidential information and destroy information systems.

Moreand more cybercriminals and reactionary organisations had been established andoperated sophisticatedly, causing serious consequences, threatening socialorder and safety, political stability and national security, he said

Fromthe perspective of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Nguyen KhacLich, Deputy Director of the Authority of Information Security under theMinistry of Information and Communication, said the current risk of informationsecurity was very big, which affected the entire economy.

“Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated, more fierce, more dangerous,” said Lich.

Also atthe summit, the representative of the Authority of Information Securityreviewed some outstanding results in the work of ensuring information securityin Vietnam.

Specifically,Vietnam's ranking of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) in accordance withthe assessment of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) had positivechanges last year.

Thecountry ranked 50 out of 193 countries, 11th in Asia-Pacific and fifth in ASEAN.

Sharingabout the orientation to implement cybersecurity, Lich said: "If we wantour country to become a powerful country in cybersecurity, in the group of 30leading countries in GCI index by 2030, we need to focus on development inaccordance with five main pillars including legal, technical, organising,capacity building, and co-operation".

Alongwith that, Lich also raised other major orientations in ensuring informationsecurity in the coming time, which are ensuring information safety in digitaltransformation; protecting users on cyberspace, promoting theimplementation of the four-class model in the organisations, and identifyinghuman as the main orientation of ensuring information safety./.