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Organisations in Vietnam are facing longer downtimes caused by cybersecurity breaches.(Photo: Cisco) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) — Organisations in Vietnam are facing longer downtimes caused by cybersecurity breaches, compared to the regional and global averages, according to a recent Cisco study. The Cisco’s 2019 Asia Pacific CISO Benchmark Study was released this week. Almost a third of companies in Vietnam were offline for 24 hours or more after their most severe breach in the past one year, compared to just four percent globally and 23 percent in the Asia-Pacific region. The Vietnam number is a huge rise from last year, when only 15 percent of organisations in the country suffered downtime of 24 hours or more. The study is based on a survey of almost 2,000 security professionals from across the region. It highlights that security practitioners in Vietnam are being kept busy. According to the study, 36 percent of respondents reported receiving more than 10,000 threat alerts a … [Read more...] about Vietnamese companies facing longer downtimes from cyberbreaches

South Korea tops with 6.91 points followed by India with 5.76 and Malaysia with 5.59, Chung Ngoc Que Chi of the Ho Chi Minh City Technical and Economic College listed these numbers in a presentation at a forum on enhancing Vietnamese workers' skills held in Hanoi on Friday and Saturday. She also cited a survey by the World Bank and the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) of 350 businesses in production and services in Hanoi, HCMC and neighboring provinces, which showed that 66 percent of businesses employed foreign laborers and 36 percent of domestic businesses were dissatisfied with the quality of education and training of Vietnamese human resources. Chi said Vietnam suffers in terms of both quality and quantity, with shortcomings in foreign language and IT skills and ability to use technologies. She blamed it on the large gap between the country's vocational education and the market's requirements, and called for forging close ties between schools and businesses for … [Read more...] about Human resources quality remains big challenge for Vietnam