After AIIMS scare, Safdarjung and RML begin bolstering cyber security

• After the recent cyber attack at AIIMS Delhi, the central government-run hospitals in Delhi are strengthening their cyber security.
• Officials at the hospitals said that a review meeting will be conducted by National Informatics Centre (NIC) as well.

What is being done

• Security audit: to be conducted soon after the recommendation of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).
• Identification of vulnerabilities: and steps to tackle them will be taken by the administration.
• Installation of firewalls on the super speciality block: as they were on local servers.
• Revamp of the website: by the hospitals
• A technical assessment: for which we experts from IIT will be hired .

Prelims Takeaway

• NIC