The Vietnam News Agency Youth Union organized a seminar “Awareness of information security in press agencies”.
According to the Organizing Committee, the discussion aims to raise awareness of press agency officials and employees about information security, provide knowledge and skills to prevent cyber security threats, and share experiences in security. confidential information in journalistic activities.
At the seminar, experts identified information security as the practice of illegally preventing, using, disclosing, interrupting, modifying, checking, recording or destroying information.
According to Expert Ngo Viet Khoi, the journalism profession has to have a lot of contact with computers, memory cards, USBs, network systems, data storage systems… all of which pose a potential risk of information insecurity. Press agencies are always in the sights of hackers. Information plays an important role in protecting and ensuring national security. Press agencies contain the main source of information for each country. If these agencies are “locked up”, they cannot speak up or broadcast false information, easily causing serious damage to the economy. economic and affects national security.
According to the IBM Cybersecurity Intelligence Index report, human error is the main contributor to 95% of leaks. Every reporter and editor plays an important role in ensuring information security in a press agency.
Some habits that can cause information insecurity in the press environment have been pointed out by experts such as: Using weak passwords and reusing passwords; lack of caution when using email; Do not lock the computer screen when not in use; do not use encryption or security tools; Using public wifi is not safe; oversharing on social networks; not being alert to signs of fraud; failure to update software and operating systems; Do not back up data…
Expert Ngo Viet Khoi said that news and press agencies need to proactively build a culture of information security within their agencies, combining information systems and the role of people, especially promoting the role of information security in their agencies. The role of leaders in ensuring information security.