Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed the need to research, develop and reach self-reliance in technology, products and services for cybersecurity and safety in
Vietnam while chairing the second meeting of the National Steering Committee on Cyber Security and Safety in Hanoi on August
25.
PM Chinh, who is also head of the committee,
said hailed members of the committee and its sub-committees for
fulfilling major tasks regarding cybersecurity, network information safety, national
defence tasks on cyberspace, and fight against malicious and harmful
information.
He called for the involvement of the entire
political system, business community and the public in the world, with the
committee, sub-committees and security forces directly responsible for ensuring
cybersecurity and safety.
As the country is stepping up national digital transformation, cybersecurity
and safety must be a crucial, regular and long-term task to maintain a
secure, healthy, and trustworthy online environment for Government agencies,
organisations, businesses and citizens, in parallel with socio-economic
development, he said.
The committee and its office were assigned to periodically report
major issues related to safeguarding national sovereignty, interests and security
on cyberspace to relevant agencies, as well as hold a conference reviewing five-year
implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution on national cybersecurity strategy
as directed by the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.
They must also fine-tune laws and policies, and improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of the State management on cybersecurity while
raising public awareness of legal regulations on cyberspace management,
identifying cyberattack plots and tricks as well as negative behaviours on
cyberspace.
The PM also demanded proactive global
integration in the field of cybersecurity and safety in the spirit of
friendship and being a trustworthy and responsible partner in the international
community, with compliance with international laws and agreements to which
Vietnam is a signatory.
He highlighted a need to issue a national strategy on database
security and pay attention to human resources training with pilot incentives
and special mechanisms for them.
Following the meeting, members of the committee must drastically
perform tasks to make the work more substantial and effective in response to
the changing landscape, he noted./.
