Information security breaches caused by human mistakes accounted for more than 60 percent of the incidents reported in Vietnam last year, data from an InfoSec association reveals.

Human errors were behind 62 percent of the information security flaws recorded in 2013, Nguyen Huy Dung, deputy head of the Information Security Department under the Ministry of Information and Communications said at a meeting in Hanoi on September 15, citing statistics from the Vietnam Information Security Association (VISA).

Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.

The term is generally used regardless of the form (electronic, physical, etc.) the data may take.

Around 52 percent of the data breaches stemmed from professional mistakes, while 10 percent were from professional ethnics, such as dishonest employees, according to VISA.

Dung also cited a report by the information and communications ministry that Vietnam still has high demand for skilled personnel in information security.

Most of the people in charge of Internet security at organizations and businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises, are not trained in information security, Dung said.

In the meantime, the training of information security personnel in Vietnam remains undeveloped, and thus fails to meet demand.

There are only a few education institutions that train engineers and offer majors in information security, he added.

On January 14, the government approved a project to train and develop a local workforce in information security between 2014 and 2020 in Decision No.99.

The government has appointed eight education institutions, among them the Hanoi University of Science and Technology and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Information Technology, to focus on information security training.

A steering board to implement the project was formed on September 6 under a decision by Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son, and the September 15 meeting was held to discuss working plans for this project, according to ICTNews newswire.

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