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2022-01-17

Training on Building and Operation of Cyber Exercise Environment

For five days from January 17th 2022, a training course on "Building and Operation of Cyber Exercise Environment" was held by a JICA expert who has been conducting cyber exercises at Japanese Financial-ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center), through online connection between Japan and Viet Nam. Seventeen participants from the Authority of Information Security (AIS) of the Ministry of Information and Communications participated in the training.

A cyber exercise is a practical training to learn procedures and methods on how to respond to a cyberattack in a simulated environment that mimics normal office PCs and/or servers. Drills conducted to confirm the established cyberattack response procedures in an organization may also be called cyber exercises.

Although the AIS provides cyber exercise to local governments and companies, it is not efficient due to the small number of personnel, and the content of the exercise is not at a level that can provide sufficient capabilities to respond to cyberattacks that are becoming more sophisticated every year.

The training course was designed to teach AIS how to build their own cyber exercises, create cyberattack scenarios, and manage them in order to be able to provide more advanced cyber exercises to local governments and companies efficiently with less manpower. The lectures and materials provided were not just theoretical, but practical with a lot of know-how based on experience by the JICA expert who has been providing the cyber exercises for more than 5 years in the Japanese Financial-ISAC.

On the last day, the participants were divided into two teams, one to launch cyberattacks and the other to respond to them, and experienced a simulated cyber exercise. Although it was short term, the participants were able to experience firsthand some of the techniques they learned during the four days of training.

Many of the trainees who participated in the training were engineers who provide cyber exercises on a daily basis and staff who plan more advanced cyber exercises, and it is expected that they will make use of the knowledge and methods gained in the training.

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