What can India Inc do to combat ransomware threat?

Hundreds of fliers spent restless hours at Indian airports Wednesday morning after aircraft of Spicejet came to a standstill.

Some took to social media platforms to register their ordeal, claiming that they were stranded for hours without a word from the private airline.

Spicejet came out with a clarification later, and said that it had faced an “attempted ransomware attack”. It also said that services were resumed in a few hours after its IT team contained the situation. But not before it gave Spicejet brass some really scary moments.

One of the tweets written in response to Spicejet’s announcement in a way highlighted most firm’s stand on cyber-security. It is more of defensive, than pre-emptive.