VietNamNet Bridge - Since 2010, Vietnam has discovered 172 cases of secrets exposed via the internet, including documents stamped as ‘top confidential’ and ‘confidential’.

The Law on Network Information Security, approved by the National Assembly’s 13th term, took effect on July 1, 2016. However, in late July, the 14th term of the National Assembly decided that the compilation of the Cyber Security Law will be part of the program for 2017 new laws.

The agency assigned to compile the Cyber Security Law affirmed that the content and the coverage of the two laws will not overlap.

The Law on Network Information Security focuses on covering the types of states which can cause technical harm and stipulate general issues related to the state’s management in information security. 

These include regulations on safe operation of network information; the rights and responsibilities of agencies, organizations and individuals in ensuring network information security; business in information security; human resource development and state management in network information security.

Since 2010, Vietnam has discovered 172 cases of secrets exposed via the internet, including documents stamped as ‘top confidential’ and ‘confidential’.

Meanwhile, the Cyber Security Law will emphasize the behavior which may harm national security, society’s safety and order; and measures to prevent, discover and fight to eliminate threats to national security.

An analyst said that building up a new law was a must, considering the problems of network information security shown in the compilers’ presentation.

The first mentioned in the presentation is that cyberattacks and network intelligence targeting the Vietnamese information system have been increasing rapidly in number and in danger level, while many attacks were deployed with support from foreign governments.

The world’s prestigious security institutions have added Vietnam to the group of countries which have the highest risks in network security with 60 percent of personal computers infected with malware.

Foreign hackers used the cyber space to control, supervise objects, install spyware, supervise and collect information.

The second problem is the activities of propagandizing to sabotage Vietnam’s ideology and economy. 

According to the Ministry of Public Security, since 2012, subjects had used more than 500 websites, blogs and thousands of pages on social networks as the forums for posting tens of thousands of articles with content against the Party and State.

Third, the state’s information leakage via cyberspace has become extremely worrying. The information from confidential documents and meetings have been exposed and posted on the internet.

An official report showed that more than 18,000 websites with ‘.vn’ domain name, or 3.72 percent, have been attacked since 2010. This included 1,083 websites with ‘.gov.vn’ domain name run by state agencies.

The presentation pointed out another big threat to Vietnam’s information security which is the reliance on the Chinese sourced information infrastructure. 


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