{"id":216571,"date":"2022-11-30T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216571"},"modified":"2022-11-30T20:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:40:04","slug":"held-to-ransom-healthcare-sector-is-a-sitting-duck-to-cybercriminals-aiims-other-hospitals-must-shore-up-security-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/held-to-ransom-healthcare-sector-is-a-sitting-duck-to-cybercriminals-aiims-other-hospitals-must-shore-up-security-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Held To Ransom – Healthcare sector is a sitting duck to cybercriminals. AIIMS & other hospitals must shore up security systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHeld To Ransom – Healthcare sector is a sitting duck to cybercriminals. AIIMS & other hospitals must shore up security systems\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a030th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Basics of cyber security.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About cyberattacks on healthcare institutes.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The recent massive ransomware attack has crippled the e-hospital services of AIIMS, Delhi for the last seven days. This highlights the increasing vulnerability of the country\u2019s healthcare infrastructure and other critical IT systems to cybercriminals.<\/p>\n

What are the concerns associated with the recent ransomware attack?<\/h5>\n

There are fears that the attackers could sell the force-encrypted AIIMS databases that contain the personal information of patients \u2013 including political leaders, senior administrators and judges \u2013 and their healthcare records on the Dark Web.<\/p>\n

About increasing cyberattacks on healthcare institutes<\/h5>\n

A massive increase in cyberattacks on healthcare institutes worldwide has been witnessed during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to research by CloudSEK, the first four months of this year saw cyberattacks on the healthcare industry increase by 95% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

In the US, the ransomware attack resulted in delaying chemotherapy treatments to diverting ambulances from a San Diego emergency room after computer systems were frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Explained: What is cryptojacking, the cyber attack carried out by crypto miners?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
About cyberattacks on Indian healthcare institutes<\/h5>\n

The Indian healthcare sector was the second-most targeted<\/strong> globally. The Indian hospitals are even more vulnerable than their American counterparts given their measly budget for cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

The increasing digitisation of hospital operations and records make them more vulnerable.<\/p>\n

What should be done to make Indian healthcare institutes cyber secure?<\/h5>\n

Follow \u20183-2-1 backup approach\u2019<\/strong>: Healthcare entities must save three copies of each type of data in two different formats, including one offline.\u00a0This is an industry best practice to make healthcare institutes cyber secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Cyber attacks on critical Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHeld To Ransom – Healthcare sector is a sitting duck to cybercriminals. AIIMS & other hospitals must shore up security systems\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a030th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Basics of cyber security. Relevance: About cyberattacks on healthcare institutes. News: The recent massive ransomware… Continue reading Held To Ransom – Healthcare sector is a sitting duck to cybercriminals. AIIMS & other hospitals must shore up security systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-216571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700778416,"cached_date":1704793922},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}