cyberattack on All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which has paralysed the premier healthcare institution for two weeks now, has raised several concerns about the preparedness of the country to ward off similar or bigger-scale attacks on its critical infrastructure.
More such attacks could happen as India’s data infrastructure gets further integrated and connected, said experts, who asked the country to strengthen its defence against such threats.
India is extremely prone to such attacks, especially on health organisations as there is no law that mandates regular audits for healthcare or a body to oversee the same, unlike with payments where the Reserve Bank of India keeps a hawk eye on the organisations and their security levels, said experts ET spoke to.
According to reports, another top hospital in New Delhi — Safdarjung Hospital —
has also been a target of an attack last week even though the severity of the attack has been less compared with the one that hit AIIMS.
Whether it is the country’s economic or market institutions or government organisations, everything is a target and institutions need to be extremely careful in terms of protecting data, said…
