AIIMS Ransomware Attack Leads to a New Cyber Response Framework

On November 23, 2022, the All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi (AIIMS), suffered a cyber attack that was labeled by police as “cyber terrorism.” As a result of the cyberattack, offline patient services like appointment booking, billing, and diagnostic reporting of the country’s principal government hospital were halted.

Since the attack targeted the hospital’s primary and backup servers, patients and the workforce were left with no access to records or test reports for a brief time. In response to the ransomware attack on AIIMS, the government was prompted to create a cyber response mechanism, according to former cybersecurity chief Lt Gen Rajesh Pant.

National Cybersecurity Response Framework

The ransomware attack impelled the government into establishing a national cybersecurity response framework (NCRF).
According to Pant, the attack has shone a spotlight on the need to protect “critical infrastructure.”
“It was realized that critical sectors need to have a uniform framework to respond to cybersecurity[…]So, the NCRF was conceptualised. It will be put in the public domain for critical infrastructure, such as those in the power and health sectors to implement,” said Pant.

The framework, according to the former NCRF chief, establishes dependable businesses and supply chain procedures and outlines the design of a cyber defense system.

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