{"id":91479,"date":"2018-04-27T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c5a097f4d1e0cbfb30f365187c61046d"},"modified":"2018-04-27T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T23:15:00","slug":"news-story-plans-to-strengthen-nhs-cyber-security-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91479","title":{"rendered":"News story: Plans to strengthen NHS cyber security announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The deal with Microsoft will ensure all health and care organisations are using the latest Windows 10 software with up-to-date security settings to help prevent cyber attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017 the government has invested \u00a360 million to address cyber security weaknesses. A further \u00a3150 million will be spent over the next 3 years to improve the NHS\u2019s resilience against attacks. This will include setting up a new digital security operations centre to prevent, detect and respond to incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The centre will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allow NHS Digital to respond to cyber attacks more quickly<\/li>\n<li>allow local trusts to detect threats, isolate infected machines and kill the threat before it spreads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other measures to improve cyber security include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u00a321 million to upgrade firewalls and network infrastructure at major trauma centre hospitals and ambulance trusts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u00a339 million spent by NHS trusts to address infrastructure weaknesses<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>new powers given to the Care Quality Commission to inspect NHS trusts on their cyber and data security capabilities<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>a data security and protection toolkit which requires health and care organisations to meet 10 security standards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>a text messaging alert system to ensure trusts have access to accurate information \u2013 even when internet and email services are down<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We know cyber attacks are a growing threat, so it is vital our health and care organisations have secure systems which patients trust.<\/p>\n<p>We have been building the capability of NHS systems over a number of years, but there is always more to do to future-proof our NHS against this threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This new technology will ensure the NHS can use the latest and most resilient software available \u2013 something the public rightly expect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new multi-million pound Microsoft package will ensure NHS systems have the most up-to-date software with the latest security settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}