Decision No. 05 And Circular No. 20 | Cyber Information Security Incidents

On 16 March 2017, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 05/2017/QD-TTG on providing emergency response plans to ensure national cyber information security (Decision No. 05). Decision No. 05 has laid out the basic framework for reporting and responding to cyber information security incidents. More recently, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issued Circular No. 20/2017/TT-BTTTT on 12 September 2017 on the coordination and response to cyber information security incidents nationwide (Circular No. 20) to further elaborate on the action plans to respond to nonserious cyber information security incidents as assigned in Decision No. 05.

Incidents under the authority of the Ministry of National Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Public Security ("MPS") are not covered by Decision No. 05 and Circular No. 20.