What does the national cyberspace infrastructure in Vietnam include?

What is national cyberspace infrastructure?

Based on the provisions of the Law on Cybersecurity 2018, national cyberspace infrastructure means a system of infrastructure serving creation, transmission, collection, processing, storage and exchange of in the national cyberspace,

What does the national cyberspace infrastructure in Vietnam include? (Internet image)

What is national cyberspace infrastructure?

Pursuant to Clause 5, Article 2 of the Law on Cybersecurity 2018, the national cyberspace infrastructure includes:

- Transmission system, which includes the national transmission system, international transmission system, satellite system, transmission systems of telecommunications service providers (TSP), Internet service providers (ISP) and providers of value-added services in cyberspace (VAS);

- Core service systems, including national information channeling and routing system, domain name system (DNS), public key infrastructure/certificate authority (PKI/CA) and Internet connection services by TSPs, ISPs and VAS providers;

- Services and IT applications including online services, interconnected IT applications serving administration by major business and finance organizations; national database.

Online services including electronic government, electronic commerce, websites, online forums, social networks and blogs;

- IT infrastructure of smart cities, the Internet of things (IoT), mixed reality systems, cloud computing, big data, rapid data and artificial intelligence.

Regulations on protection of cybersecurity of national cyberspace infrastructure in Vietnam

Protection of cybersecurity of national cyberspace infrastructure in Vietnam must comply with the provisions of Article 25 of the Law on Cybersecurity 2018, specifically as follows:

- Protection of cybersecurity of national cyberspace infrastructure and international internet gateways shall combine cybersecurity protection and socio-economic development; international internet gateways located within Vietnam's territory will be given priority; investments in national cyberspace infrastructure will be given priority.

- Responsibility of users of national cyberspace infrastructure and international internet gateways:

+ Protect cybersecurity under their management; facilitate administration and inspection and comply with cybersecurity requirements by competent authorities;

+ Enable and implement administrative and technical measures necessary for competent authorities to protect cybersecurity upon request.

Cybersecurity protection principles in Vietnam

Cybersecurity protection principles specified in Article 4 of the Law on Cybersecurity 2018, include:

- The Constitution and law must be upheld; interests of the State, the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals must be protected.

- Cybersecurity protection will be carried out under leadership of Vietnam’s Communist Party and management of the State; the entire political system and the people will be mobilized to ensure cybersecurity; emphasize the role of professional cybersecurity forces.

- Combine cybersecurity protection and protection of national security information system with socio-economic development, protection of human rights and citizenship rights, enable organizations and individuals to operate in cyberspace.

- Prevent, discover and take actions against the use of cyberspace for the purpose of violating national security, disrupting public order or violating lawful rights and interests of other organizations and individuals; eliminate cybersecurity threats.

- Ensure cybersecurity of national cyberspace infrastructure; implement various measures to protect national security information systems.

- National security information systems shall undergo cybersecurity appraisal and certification before being put into operation; undergo regular cybersecurity inspection and supervision in order to respond to and remediate any cybersecurity incident that occurs.

- Application violations against regulations of law on cybersecurity shall be promptly and strictly dealt with.

Mai Thanh Loi

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