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This editorial has been updated
The ransomware attack on the country’s premier health care institution, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), serves as a wake-up call. It should prompt a comprehensive review of cyber-security guidelines. The Digital India policy targets putting all sorts of government functions and customer-facing services online, and encouraging cashless transactions. Protecting against cyber-attacks and creating disaster recovery systems assume great urgency.
The ransomware attack on the country’s premier health care institution, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), serves as a wake-up call. It should prompt a comprehensive review of cyber-security guidelines. The Digital India policy targets putting all sorts of government functions and customer-facing services online, and encouraging cashless transactions. Protecting against cyber-attacks and creating disaster recovery systems assume great urgency.
In ransomware attacks, criminals take over IT systems and encrypt these to make data unreadable. Then they demand ransom payment to decrypt the system and hand access back. Ransomware attacks target municipal systems,
