Vietnam: Coordination of activities of urgent rescue, fight against attacks and terrorism on the network

Specifically, according to Article 43 of Decree No. 64/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, coordination of activities of urgent rescue, fight against attacks and terrorism on the network is prescribed as follows:

- The Ministry of Post and Telematics shall perform the function of coordinating activities of computer rescue in Vietnam and act as Vietnam's focal point for international cooperation in preventing incidents and attacks in the network. Pursuant to international practice and regulations on information safety assurance, state management agencies shall provide for coordination of information safety activities to prevent, combat, respond to and remedy information safety-related incidents in the network environment.

- The coordinating agency may request information safety units or sections in state agencies, information safety service-providing organizations,

- Internet service-providing enterprises and network infrastructure service-providing organizations to participate in the prevention of attacking sources that cause incidents to the network.

- The coordinating agency shall publish a list of attacking sources on the Internet, risks and origins of network incidents and, on that basis, coordinate urgent rescue forces to prevent and remedy incidents.

- In case of emergency where serious incidents or network terrorism may occur, functional agencies may organize the prevention of attacking sources before receiving notices thereon and report later to the coordinating agency.

- Agencies, organizations and individuals are obliged to supply information and create conditions for functional agencies to carry out study and investigation in order to quickly prevent incidents and remedy consequences caused by attacks or terrorism in the network environment.

View more details at Decree No. 64/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from May 18, 2007.

Ty Na

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