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National Cyber ​​Security Coordinator  conducting mock tests on the AIIMS servers in Delhi

For the past two days, experts from CERT-IN, NIC and the National Security Council Secretariat, led by National Cyber ​​Security Coordinator Lt Gen (Retd) Rajesh Pant, have been conducting mock tests on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences servers in Delhi. to check the system’s resilience against future attacks after 5 out of 100 physical and virtual servers were damaged by attacks that some government officials believe originated in China.

According to people familiar with the AIIMS cyber attack, the affected servers have been isolated and the system is being tested for resilience. The respondents also recommended the creation of a full-fledged cyber security division at the VVIP hospital to safeguard against future cyber warfare. It is learned that Delhi AIIMS has been advised to use a hierarchical computer architecture with built-in redundancies instead of the current flat computer architecture in the hospital to cater to the medical requirements of the highest in the country, including the President and Prime Minister.

Top government experts dismiss the ransom demand as mere sensationalism or an effort to mislead respondents; and there was no cyber attack on the Safdarjung Hospital servers as reported in certain sections of the media but a glitch that has been fixed. While government cyber experts are looking into how to effectively firewall the AIIMS servers, the incident exposed the vulnerability of a critical and key sector to cyber attacks. Since the issue falls under the remit of national security, most experts are tight-lipped, but the AIIMS incident, they admit, has highlighted the vulnerability of the government sector — all ministries have separate portals and are particularly vulnerable — to cyber attacks and hybrid warfare

HT learns that SingCERT, Singapore’s cyber security agency, informed India through institutionalized channels that China was testing the resilience of India’s hybrid warfare system in 2019 when the Indian Air Force launched an attack on Balakot on February 26. retaliation for the February 14 Pulwama terror attack by the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. It is clear that the Singaporean government intercepted several attacks on Indian government and military servers at that crucial moment.

Since hybrid warfare or coordinated physical and cyber attacks are the future of warfare, major powers like USA, China, Russia, France have built effective firewalls to protect their government servers from attacks by enemy power. These countries allow government servers to operate from a single portal that is heavily protected and protected, rather than multiple portals that essentially allow multiple entries into interconnected government systems.

Not only are Indian servers vulnerable to China, but a large number of attacks originate from arch-rival Pakistan via third countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, people familiar with the matter said. The attack on AIIMS came to light on November 23 when users found they could not access a key application that manages appointments, stores medical records and hosts reports of diagnostic tests conducted by the facility.

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