Ransomware in India Why infrastructure security is now a boardroom topic
It was a regular Monday morning at a mid-sized manufacturing company in western India.
The plant was running at full capacity. Orders were lined up. Trucks were waiting at the gate, waiting to be loaded.
Suddenly the systems started freezing. First the ERP went down. Then the production dashboards stopped updating. Within minutes, machines dependent on central systems came to a halt. A message appeared on a screen in the control room. “Your data has been encrypted. Pay to restore access.”
Panic and urgency were everywhere. Very few knew what was happening. Urgent emergency meeting of the CEO, CFO, CIO, was called out. It was evident that ransomware incident had happened, and no one knew how to handle it.
The one major question in everyone mind was “How long before the operations are up again? Learn More