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This year’s International Thalassemia Day, themed “Addressing Health Inequalities Across the Global Thalassemia Community”, is devoted to raising public awareness about Thalassemia and one of the major causes in the spread of the disease - cousin marriages, as well as the importance of pre-marriage and pre-pregnancy counselling and screenings to early detect the disease. Data shows that there are about 8,000 new-borns carrying the Thalassemia gene every year, around 2,000 of which will suffer from severe symptoms. Some 13 million Vietnamese, or 13 percent of the population, carry the gene. About 20-40 percent of the Thalassemia gene carriers are mountainous ethnic minority people, mainly due to inbreeding. According to the General Office for Population and Family Planning, despite many efforts, treatment can only help improve patients’ quality of life and does not completely cure the disease. A report shows that since 2001, up to 20 percent of children born with Thalassemia died at the age of 6-7 and most people with severe symptoms cannot find a spouse. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder caused when the body doesn’t make enough haemoglobin - an important part of red blood cells. The disorder results in excessive destruction of red blood cells, which leads to anaemia. People with severe symptoms may suffer from bone problems and liver and heart failure, and the condition can be fatal. A child can inherit Thalassemia if one or both of his or her parents carry the mutant gene. The risk is higher if both parents have it. Most married Vietnamese couples do not have any tests or consultancy on inherited disorders. People who carry such genes show no abnormal signs so do not undergo examinations or screening before giving birth. Huge investment in medicine and regular blood transfusions make Thalassemia a costly disease, placing a financial burden on families and society as a whole. It is estimated that 2 trillion VND (85.1 million USD) and …

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Tran Phuong Hong, IT Advisory director, KPMG Tax and Advisory Vietnam and Do Kim Hien, senior solution consultant, KPMG Tax and Advisory Vietnam In Vietnam, we have had vast opportunities in conducting SWIFT system security gap assessment projects for Vietnamese banks, and there are best practices that clients should consider while implementing and securing the system according to a SWIFT Customer Security Control Framework (SWIFT CSCF). The SWIFT CSCF describes a set of mandatory and advisory security controls for users. Mandatory security controls establish a security baseline for the entire community and must be implemented by all users on their local SWIFT infrastructure. The SWIFT has chosen to prioritise these mandatory controls to set a realistic goal for near-term, tangible security gain, and risk reduction. Advisory controls are based on good practice that SWIFT recommends. Over time, mandatory controls may change due to the evolving threat landscape, and some advisory controls may become mandatory. All controls are articulated around three objectives: ‘Secure your Environment’, ‘Know and Limit Access’, and ‘Detect and Respond’. Controls have been developed based on SWIFT analysis of cyber threat intelligence and in conjunction with industry experts and user feedback. Control definitions are also intended to be in line with existing information security industry standards. SWIFT CSCF version 2021 has defined 31 security controls (22 mandatory and nine advisory controls) that underpin these objectives and principles. The controls are intended to help mitigate specific cybersecurity risks that users face due to the cyber threat landscape. Within each security control, SWIFT has documented the most common risk drivers that the control is designed to help mitigate. Addressing these risks aims to prevent or minimise undesirable and potentially fraudulent business consequences, such as unauthorised sending or modification of financial transactions; …

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Of nearly 1 million cyber-attacks on critical IT systems handled annually by the Network Information Security Center of the Government Cipher Committee, attacks that exploited vulnerability accounted for more than 87%. Speaking at the recent Security World 2021 seminar and exhibition, Colonel Tran Duc Su, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Cyber ​​Security Monitoring of the Government Cipher Committee said that, according to McAfee, losses caused by cyber-attacks and cybercrime caused in 2020 were huge, about $1 trillion, up 50% compared to 2018. Colonel Tran Duc Su, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Cyber ​​Security Monitoring of the Government Cipher Committee. According to Su, the Covid-19 pandemic was believed to be the cause of an increase in cyber-attacks. "As digital transformation platforms grow stronger and people operate more in virtual space, the increase of cyber-attacks is understandable," he said. Mr. Tran Quang Hung, Director of the Center for National Cyber Security Surveillance (NCSC) under the Department of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications, said that in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic’s impacts caused a significant increase in the risks of network insecurity. According to Hung's analysis, the increase in online activities such as online learning, working online, and e-commerce created many challenges in cyber safety and security for Vietnam in particular and the world in general. In 2020, the number of malicious codes and malicious websites rose dramatically compared to previous years, reflected in reports by NCSC, as well as reports of many international security organizations and firms. In addition, the time the world focused on dealing with Covid-19 was also an opportunity for many groups of hackers around the world to operate actively. The number of security vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in 2020 increased …

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