Cyberattack on Indian Healthcare sector

After the nefarious #cyberattack on All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, the hospital has issued an internal video guide to help its doctors, faculty members and other staff to install the prescribed security software in their systems.

Most of its servers stopped working as also the eHospital network managed by the National Informatics Centre. All functions including the emergency, out-patient, in-patient and laboratory wings had to be shifted to manual management. AIIMS cyberattack is a wake-up call for national security.

The National Investigation Agency sent a team to AIIMS on November 25. Besides CERT-in and NIC teams, a team from the Defence Research and Development Organisation is also looking into the matter. The Delhi Police, Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation and the Ministry of Home Affairs are also probing the incident.

Sources said, all these IT related works are being operated by professional Doctors but not the Technology experts. AIIMS-Delhi has 40 physical servers and 100 virtual servers and about 10,000 computers and not all of them have updated anti-virus applications and does not have a centralized network security operation centre from where agencies involved in the process of restoring work can run. Of these, five servers have been infected as a result of the cyber-attack. These five servers hosted data of approximately 3-4 crore patients.

In light of the recent cyberattack on the institute, it is requested that—no router/hub etc should be connected to the AIIMS network port by any user, no computer system (desktop) or laptop etc, which is on AIIMS LAN may be connected to a mobile hotspot, an order issued by Dr Vivek Gupta, additional professor and assistant faculty, computer facility, AIIMS. A question arises, did #AIIMS follow a cyber hygiene ecosystem similar to what it would want its patients to follow in the real world?

As per media reports, hackers have allegedly dem

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