The workshop by the IT ministry comes following a crippling cyberattack on the servers of the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Safdarjung Hospital and different hospitals within the capital metropolis.
The web site of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) was additionally attacked 6,000 instances in a day, in line with reviews.
These workshops, to be performed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from December 19, will cowl points comparable to darknet and darkish internet, D-DOS assault and repair disruption, superior persistent threats, and customary assault strategies adopted by cybercriminals.
The coaching will likely be directed at chief info officers, chief technical officers, and members of the data expertise and challenge administration models (PMU) of those organisations.
“The recent attacks on government assets have reinforced the focus on cybersecurity. The idea is to build awareness and create an ecosystem where government departments can borrow learnings from each other to build resilient IT systems in their respective departments,” a ministry official mentioned.
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In the 5-day workshop being performed by the IT ministry’s National e-governance division below its ‘Cyber Surakshit Bharat’ initiative, CIOs, CTOs and IT group members of presidency departments, in addition to PSUs, may even be skilled on points of figuring out threats earlier than they hit the community, methods to find out the credibility of menace or ransom being demanded by cybercriminals and environment friendly methods of dealing with them.
Cyberattacks on authorities departments comparable to well being, science and expertise, nuclear energy crops and the armed forces have elevated exponentially following the easing of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2021. The IT ministry had then additionally despatched an exhaustive record of dos and don’ts to all authorities departments.
Data from cybersecurity from CloudSEK reveals that the variety of cyberattacks towards the healthcare trade globally elevated 95.34% within the first 4 months of 2022 in contrast with a 12 months earlier.
The report mentioned India noticed the second-highest variety of assaults worldwide, with a complete of seven.7% of the whole assaults on the healthcare trade in 2021. India accounted for 29.7% of all assaults within the Asia and Pacific area whereas China was the second most focused nation within the area.