The signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement on training and fostering knowledge about information safety and security between the Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order - C06 (Ministry of Public Security), Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Vietnam Information Security Association - VNISA recently took place in Hanoi.

This three-party cooperation agreement is considered an important milestone to help raise awareness and promote the equipping of basic skills in information security and network security for officials and people. At the same time, the agreement also aims to contribute to promoting the implementation of the 'Project to develop application of population data, identification and electronic authentication to serve national digital transformation in the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030' (Project 06) in the coming period.

According to the newly signed cooperation agreement, C06, VNISA and Hanoi University of Science and Technology will cooperate in building and standardizing learning materials for safety and information security training courses in general, focusing on two short-term courses including a digital space safety awareness course and a basic training course on digital space safety.

The three units also cooperate to develop capacity assessment frameworks, issue certificates to students who participate and meet the evaluation criteria of training courses; Coordinate the implementation of training courses on information safety and security for the community, especially targeting officials, civil servants and public employees participating in the implementation of Project 06 of the Government.

In addition, the parties also agreed on a plan to deploy online real-time training on the open mass online education platform (MOOC) daotao.ai developed by the Center for Technology and Digital Transformation Solutions in Education, School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

Speaking at the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement, Colonel Vu Van Tan, Deputy Director of C06, hopes that cooperation between the three units will help improve knowledge for officials, civil servants, public employees and people, support the implementation of Project 06. From there, contribute to promoting safe and secure national digital transformation, avoiding loss and disclosure of personal information.

C06 representative also commented that the MOOC platform with modern technology, face recognition AI system, online training form will be easy to access, save time, cost, training location, and a large number of participating students. Using the online training platform daotao.ai of Polytechnic University will promote the advantages of modern technology and help a large number of officials and people access this training program.

According to Associate Professor Huynh Quyet Thang, Director of Hanoi University of Science and Technology, opening and exploiting citizen identification data warehouses to serve state management can only be effective when there is people's awareness and awareness of information safety and security.

“Building a learning society and developing information security courses for the community is necessary”, Associate Professor Huynh Quyet Thang emphasized.

Sharing on the sidelines of the event, VNISA Vice President Ngo Tuan Anh said that participating in training to develop information security human resources has always been identified as one of the important tasks of the association. In addition to in-depth information security training courses for experts, VNISA has been organizing and coordinating courses to raise awareness of information security, equipping the community with basic information security knowledge.

In fact, on the basis of clearly realizing the importance of raising awareness and information security skills for people, from the end of November 2022, according to the launch of the Ministry of Information and Communications, 'Propaganda Alliance to raise awareness and skills to ensure information security for people in cyberspace', with 10 member units including the Department of Information Security - Ministry of Information and Communications, VNISA, Viettel, VNPT, MobiFone, CMC, Bkav, VNG, Coc Coc and Tiktok Vietnam.

Along with that, a new way of training and fostering - through a mass open online learning platform has also been directed and deployed by the Ministry of Information and Communications. According to the OneTouch implementation unit, the mass open online learning platform has the potential to become a national digital platform. Of the 160 courses being offered on the OneTouch platform, there are currently 15 information security training courses. In particular, there are currently 3 courses for citizens, helping them equip the necessary knowledge and skills when participating in the digital environment.