HCM City has launched its action plan for implementing the national cybersecurity strategy in response to cyberspace challenges in the city by 2025. — Illustration Photo www.sggp.org.vn

HCM CITY — HCM City plans to focus on disseminating information to create a strong transformation, aiming to raise awareness and work toward a more robust approach to cybersecurity in State agencies, businesses and people’s day-to-day activities.

The municipal People’s Committee has issued an action plan for implementing a national cybersecurity strategy in response to cyberspace challenges in the city by 2025, with a vision to 2030.

Under the plan, the city will pay more attention to building human resources in cybersecurity.

It will focus on creating digital trust, building an honest, civilised and healthy network environment, preventing and combating law violations in cyberspace, and strengthening the State management of information safety and network security in agencies, units and enterprises.

It sets targets of reaching a rate of information systems at levels 3, 4, and 5 which will be classified and protected in accordance with the levels and rate of information systems that were approved and reached a target of 80 per cent in 2023.

These targets are expected to gain 90 and 100 per cent in 2024 and 2025, respectively.

Other goals include the rates of servers and workstations in State agencies in installing anti-malware software and sharing information with the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), rate of malware detection of Botnet IP of servers at State agencies, and rate of security assessment of information system of State agencies must annually reach 100 per cent.

The city has also asked agencies and units to carry out missions strictly and synchronously.

The city’s Department of Information and Communications is in charge of monitoring, instructing and inspecting units and businesses related to building plans to perform the tasks, examining and urging the implementation of the plan, and making a report of difficulties and challenges to submit to the municipal People’s Committee.

Việt Nam aims to build a cyber security research and development centre, protect information systems in 11 important areas, and form cyber security forces at ministries, sectors and State agencies by 2025.

The authority stressed that it is necessary to strengthen the protection of national sovereignty in cyberspace, digital infrastructure, digital platforms, digital data, national cyber infrastructure, information systems of Party and State agencies and important fields. — VNS