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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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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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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100 NHS boards completed cyber security training since WannaCry
It was unclear if the 100 NHS boards that had completed their training were of the 236 hospital trusts in England or of primary care NHS organisations.
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Cyber security news round-up
Our latest news round up includes research from Imperial College London which looked into the NHS’ prepardness for a secutiry incident.
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Reviewing the complexities of the VPN market
Virtual private networks offer the promise of security and privacy, and so are naturally attracting increasing levels of interest. A review of the market offers some interesting findings.
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