Vietnam promotes self-reliance in cybersecurity technology

On November 17, the National Cyber Security Association organized a discussion on “Cyber Security Law 2025: Promoting technological autonomy”, aiming to create a forum for exchange between management agencies, experts, businesses and social organizations on the Draft Cyber Security Law 2025, making proposals, recommendations and contributing ideas to perfect the legal framework.

Photo caption — Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Do Thi, Deputy Head of the Department of Cyber Security, informed about the draft Law on Cyber Security 2025.

Sharing information at the seminar, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Do Thi, Deputy Head of the Cyber Security Department, Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention ( Ministry of Public Security ) said that currently, dependence on foreign technology is one of three groups of risks and direct challenges that affect national security and social order and safety. In order to improve the capacity of autonomy in cyber security, the State encourages and creates conditions for agencies, organizations and individuals to improve their capacity of autonomy in cyber security and improve the ability to produce, test, evaluate and inspect digital devices, network services and network applications.

At the seminar, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Ai Viet, Director of the Institute of Technology and New Intelligence Education, also commented that in the long term, autonomous products are extremely important. In addition to increasing the budget, training to raise awareness of cybersecurity for leaders of large corporations, companies, and organizations with sensitive data, especially banks, there should be a policy requiring organizations to have cybersecurity policies including cybersecurity architecture. In this architecture, any solution must have a domestic defense layer. Although the domestic defense layer is not strong in all aspects compared to the foreign defense layer at present, it will overcome the weaknesses of the foreign defense layer. The Ministry of Public Security should be assigned to build the Cyber Security Architecture Framework.

Believing that the draft Law on Cyber Security will create a solid legal framework, contributing to protecting data, digital assets and national digital sovereignty, promoting the development of Vietnam's cybersecurity industry in the direction of standardization and professionalism, Mr. Tran Quoc Chinh, Vice Chairman of CMC Corporation, General Director of CMC Cyber Security, proposed that it is necessary to soon issue standards, technical regulations and a set of criteria for assessing and ranking national cybersecurity. Along with the Law, it is necessary to issue national technical standards and regulations (TCVN, QCVN) for each group of cybersecurity products and services. This creates a legal basis for testing, certification of conformity/regulation, inspection and assessment of systems before putting them into operation.

According to Mr. Vu Ngoc Son, Head of the Department of Research, Consulting, Technology Development and International Cooperation, National Cyber Security Association, the draft Law on Cyber Security 2025 is a big step forward for Vietnam in building a legal system to protect cyberspace, which is increasingly having a profound impact on all aspects of socio-economic life.

Once passed, the new law will create a modern, unified, flexible legal framework that is consistent with international practices and trends; protect digital sovereignty, enhance defense capabilities, ensure data security and digital sovereignty against cyber threats; reduce dependence on foreign technology, promote national cybersecurity technology autonomy; and pave the way for Vietnam's cybersecurity ecosystem and industry to develop more strongly.

Recently, the Ministry of Public Security, the agency in charge of drafting the Cyber Security Law project, has proactively and urgently completed the dossier of the Cyber Security Law project 2025 to submit to the National Assembly. The draft Cyber Security Law is built on the basis of merging two current laws, the Cyber Security Law 2018 and the Network Information Security Law 2015. This merger ensures that the functions and tasks of ministries and branches do not change, no new policies arise, and properly implement the spirit of Resolution 18 of the Central Committee on clear assignment and decentralization, avoiding overlap in management.

One of the outstanding new points of the draft Law on Cyber Security 2025 is the addition of regulations on encouraging state agencies, organizations and enterprises to use domestic cybersecurity products, enhancing Vietnam's capacity for cybersecurity autonomy.

In the context of globalization and the rapid development of information technology, cybersecurity has become a vital factor for the stability and development of countries. Vietnam, with a rapidly growing digital economy, cannot stand aside in facing cybersecurity challenges. Improving cybersecurity self-sufficiency is an urgent requirement, not only to protect the safety of the country's critical infrastructure but also to maintain social stability and sustainable economic development.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/chinh-sach-va-cuoc-song/viet-nam-thuc-day-nang-luc-tu-chu-cong-nghe-an-ninh-mang-20251117180302191.htm