NHS trust IT spend up more than £150m since WannaCry
Research by Parliament Street revealed that NHS trusts spent a collective £612m on IT in 2018/19, compared to £460m in the year directly preceding WannaCry.
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NHS Digital expands cyber security toolkit with new free services for trusts
A range of free IT perimeter security tools are being made available to NHS organisations through a new contract between NHS Digital and Accenture.
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Encryption standards for medical devices ‘need to be mandatory’
Pangea Connected’s system developer, Dr Arslan Usman, said IoT medical devices need to be better regulated to boost cyber security efforts.
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Davey Winder: Hey Alexa, what’s the problem with your health advice NHS collaboration?
Our cybersecurity columnist Davey Winder delves beyond the media headlines regarding data privacy after the NHS announced a partnership with Amazon.
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Cyber security news round-up
Our latest cyber security news round up looks at the recent hijacking of the Metropolitan Police Force’s social media page.
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NHSmail registers 11 million blocked attacks in three years
According to the information released by NHS Digital, the NHSmail system blocked a total of 11.35m email attacks between since 2016.
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Calls for ‘urgent’ improvements in NHS cyber security presented to Parliament
A white paper written by researchers from Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation says fresh investment is “urgently needed” to defend against threats that could put the safety of patients at risk.
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Davey Winder: Insider threats should be seen as security opportunities
Employees are often labelled as being the weak link in the security defensive cybersecurity chain. But our expert columnist Davey Winder argues that, far from being the problem, they are actually part of the solution.
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NHS Digital cyber chief puts emphasis on ‘protecting patient information’
Speaking at the Digital Healthcare Show, Dan Pearce, said one of his main priorities was to “protect patient safety”.
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Cyber security news round up
Our round up features NHS Highland apologising following reports email addresses of almost 40 people who have HIV were made public by mistake.
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