Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) held an online seminar on network security. Zeng Dehua, deputy director of the Education Management Information Centre of the Ministry of Education and director of the Education Information Classified Security Protection Evaluation Centre, was invited to give a report entitled “The Situation and Requirements of Network Information Security in Education.” About 500 faculty and staff from the OUC headquarters and its school running system attended the seminar.

Zeng Dehua introduced the national network security strategy, policies, and regulations and gave an in-depth explanation of the educational network security system and mechanism, policies, and requirements for education network security. He also demonstrated some network attack and protection cases to the participants. In the end, he put forward suggestions for network security to be implemented by the staff of the OUC, including strengthening the implementation of a network security responsibility system, improving the technical protection of the network security, implementing a network classified security protection system, strengthening network security education and training, and network security operation and maintenance.

His simple yet in-depth explanations helped attendees to enhance their network security awareness, expand their network security knowledge, and improve their network security protection skills.

Safeguarding network security is part of protecting the people’s interests. At the same time, the task of protecting network security depends on collective efforts since network security is closely related to everyone's vital interests. Taking this activity as an opportunity, the OUC will continue to promote network security publicity activities, improve the network security literacy of its staff, and strengthen the network security protection of the university, in order to build a civilised, harmonious, and healthy campus environment.

By Sun Yu,OUC