3. Close association between tasks for protecting cybersecurity and information systems critical for national security with the tasks for socio-economic development, ensuring human rights and civil rights, and facilitating [all] agencies, organizations and individuals to conduct activities in cyberspace. 4. Proactive prevention, detection, ending, fighting and defeating all acts using cyberspace to infringe national security, social order and safety, or the lawful rights and interests of agencies, organizations and individuals; and readiness to prevent any cybersecurity threat. 5. Implementing cybersecurity protective activities for the national cyberspace infrastructure; applying measures to protect information systems critical for national security. 6. Information systems critical for national security shall be evaluated and certified as satisfying cybersecurity conditions prior to their commissioning for operation and use, and shall be regularly inspected [audited] and supervised for cybersecurity during the process of their use, with prompt response to and remedying of any cybersecurity incident. 7. Any act in breach of the law on cybersecurity must be promptly and strictly dealt with. Article 5. Measures for cybersecurity protection 1. The measures for protecting cybersecurity comprise: (a) Evaluation of cybersecurity; (b) Assessment of cybersecurity conditions; (c) Inspections [audits] of cybersecurity; (d) Supervision of cybersecurity; (dd) Response to and remedying any cybersecurity incident; (e) Fighting [working hard] to protect cybersecurity; (g) Using cryptography to protect network information; (h) Stopping, requiring the suspension of or ceasing provision of network information; suspending or temporarily suspending acts being the establishment, supply and use of telecom networks, of the Internet or being the manufacture and use of radio transmitters and receivers in accordance with law; (i) Requiring the deletion, access to or removal of unlawful or false information in cyberspace which infringes national security, social order and safety, or the lawful rights and interests of agencies, organizations and individuals; www.economica.vn Unofficial Translation. For Reference only 4