Cybercrime in a few keystrokes: Gary Colman at the PCS conference
WannaCry last year put ransomware high on the agenda for NHS IT professionals, but that effort is – rightly – focused on preventing and mitigating against attacks. What may be less obvious is carrying out ransomware attack can be easy as a few keystrokes, as Vivienne Raper discovered at last year’s Public Cyber Security (PCS) conference.
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Cybersecurity a leadership issue for NHS Boards, not a tech issue
NHS England’s head of architecture has said cybersecurity needs to viewed as a business continuity issue by NHS boards and not one concerning IT.
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PCS Speaker profile: Peter Brown on mordernising data protection laws
Peter Brown, a senior technology officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), will be speaking about data protection principles in the context of cyber security at the first Public Cyber Security conference on 7 December.
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The threat of cyber attack: could cloud be a solution?
Cyber security and the cloud are both high up the agenda for NHS IT leaders. With Digital Health’s Public Cyber Security conference and Cloud Summit both drawing close, Vivienne Raper hears they needn’t be mutually exclusive priorities.
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PCS Speaker Profile: Ed Tucker on bringing cyber back to basics
Ed Tucker, CIO at DP Governance, speaks to Digital Health about the need to remove the complexity from the GDPR debate and bring the issue back to basics.
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More than a quarter of acute NHS trusts fail to undertake cyber penetrative tests
28% of acute NHS trusts and 16% of mental health trusts have not undertaken penetrative testing for cyber security in the last twelve months, according to new research from Digital Health Intelligence.
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PCS Speaker profile: Gabriel Voisin on the impact of GDPR
New data protection laws, which will be enforced in May 2018, will be a hot topic at the first Public Cyber Security conference in Birmingham next month.
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‘NHS Cyber Security Batsignal’ peer-to-peer alerting system to launch next month
The two chairs of the largest independent communities of NHS digital leaders will launch the ‘NHS Cyber Security Batsignal’, a new peer-to-peer cyber security warning alerting system, at the first Public Cyber Security conference next month.
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Cybersecurity news round-up
This month’s cyber security industry round-up covers the National Audit Office’s report on WannaCry and how more people needed to combat cyber security skills gap.
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Davey Winder: prescription risk – pharmacies and cyber security
In the run up to Digital Health’s new Public Cyber Security conference, our cyber security expert Davey Winder explores why pharmacies are becoming a prime target for cyber criminals – and what can be done to prevent attack.
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