Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam will declare a national digital strategy thisyear to set up a digital economy and society, said Minister of Information andCommunications Nguyen Manh Hung at a cybersecurity conference in Hanoi on April17.

The Minister said cybersecurity was a prerequisite for a successful nationaltransition to a digital society.

It created a safe environment for the Government, enterprises and people to usedigital technology, he said.

Vietnam wanted to create a safe space for digital transactions, he said, and todevelop world-class cyber security enterprises.

“Our prosperity depends on the internet, but the internet is not safe,” said Hung.“Making the internet safer means making our country more prosperous.”

Every information technology investment project must take onlinesecurity measures, he stressed.

Concerned organisations must ensure cyber security in Governmental offices andimportant national infrastructure, he said. Each Governmental organisation musthave at least one enterprise ensuring cybersecurity to avoid the theft ofinformation.

Also at the conference, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC)for the first time announced cybersecurity assessments of State organisationsfor last year.

The assessment will now be conducted annually and gradually widened to includeall organisations and enterprises.

Also the same day, under the sponsorship of the MIC, the Authority ofInformation Security and the Vietnam Information Security Association, togetherwith its partners, launched an alliance to handle malicious code and preventnetwork attacks. - VNA