{
  "id": 3249199,
  "title": "Data and resilience drive Vietnam s digital government",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/data-and-resilience-drive-vietnam-s-digital-government",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-25T11:21:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vietnam Investment Review",
    "slug": "vietnam-investment-review",
    "url": "https://vir.com.vn/data-and-resilience-drive-vietnams-digital-government-159419.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On August 24, the Central Policy and Strategy Commission and the National Cybersecurity Association co-sponsored a conference in Hanoi focused on digital transformation in the public sector. The event, held in coordination with Synology Vietnam and IEC Consulting, emphasized the need for both sustainable infrastructure and data security to achieve national growth targets. As the public sector undergoes a dual transformation, moving from an organizational restructuring to digital platform redesign, data-driven governance has become increasingly important, especially at the commune level where most services are directly delivered to citizens.\n\nNguyen Hong Hien, director of the Department of Science and Technology, highlighted science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation as key drivers of the new growth model. With the two-tier local government model in place since July 2025, there is a growing need to standardize, cleanse, update, and connect data systems while ensuring continuity and uninterrupted public services.\n\nHowever, data remains fragmented, quality is uneven, and interoperability between systems is limited. Jola Le, Synology's country manager, suggested viewing data protection as an ecosystem encompassing storage, management, backup, recovery, access control, and security monitoring. One solution introduced was air-gapping, which isolates backup systems from the network when not in use or if abnormal activity is detected, providing an extra layer of protection against data encryption or destruction.\n\nPham Trung Thanh, a National Cybersecurity Association expert, warned of challenges in transitioning from physical to cloud environments. Many agencies must operate legacy and new systems simultaneously, creating complex architectures while dedicated cybersecurity personnel remain scarce. Thanh emphasized that the risk extends beyond system attacks, as hackers can remain hidden for months, escalating privileges before launching an attack, leading to data theft or encryption, and potentially disrupting services.\n\nVu Duy Hien, deputy secretary general and chief of office, stressed that cybersecurity must be built from the outset when developing infrastructure, organizing data, and designing digital systems. Beyond prevention, agencies need proactive detection, response, and recovery capabilities to ensure essential operations continue and quickly return to normal in the event of an incident.",
  "summary": "Public sector digital transformation is entering a new phase with data becoming the foundation of governance while the ability to connect share protect and recover data is increasingly determining operational resilience and the economy s capacity for growth",
  "key_points": [
    "Vietnam's digital government conference in Hanoi on August 24 emphasized data and resilience",
    "Data-driven governance crucial at commune level for direct citizen services",
    "Air-gapping introduced as extra data protection layer against encryption or destruction"
  ],
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  "illustration": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}