Ensuring information security for cloud computing a key national goal

The Ministry of Information and Communications has determined that the cloud computing platform is a key part of telecommunications infrastructure to focus on in the coming years. The ministry has also defined cloud computing as the digital infrastructure for the development of a digital government, digital economy and digital society.

To develop Vietnamese cloud computing platforms in the right direction, Vietnam was one of the few countries that have issued a set of technical criteria to evaluate and choose a cloud computing solution for e-government, said Nguyen Khac Lich, Deputy Director of the Authority of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications. The set of technical criteria consists of 153 standards, including 84 technical criteria and 69 information security criteria.

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