Cipla asks its cybersecurity team to be on alert after attacks on pharma firms

New Delhi: India’s second largest drugmaker Cipla Ltd has asked its information technology team to be “paranoid” about its cybersecurity following attacks on two large pharmaceutical firms, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd and Lupin.

“We have not seen the kind of attacks that the other two companies you mentioned have faced in the recent past. But protection goes up. I have told my IT team to be as paranoid as possible and take the help of experts in this, and continue to track some hostile activities like conversations on the dark web, and multiple other things that one can do,” Cipla chief financial officer Kedar Upadhye told Mint.

Upadhye said that cyberattacks on large companies usually happen and that firms take precautions and advise employees on dos and dont’s when it comes to operating on the internet.