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New Delhi: The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has asked the health ministry to conduct an internal security audit to ensure data protection, after a suspected cyberattack at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) gave hackers access to personal information of people who had taken Covid vaccination...
In a letter written to the health ministry last week, MeitY has asked it to conduct security audits of all databases, people in the know told ET on the condition of anonymity...
MeitY has asked to initiate the exercise on "priority", one of the people said..
The health ministry is contemplating engaging a third-party assessor for a comprehensive examination and assessment of its security system, the person said.. "While the investigation on the ICMR issue is still on, the security audit will help keep critical data safe, and will also detect loopholes, if any," he said...
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