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[youngmafbog]

Seven NHS trusts, serving more than two million people, spent nothing on cybersecurity in 2015.

Jeez, what planet are these people on? Lets sck a load of the bloated management and admin and put the funding where it needs to be.

http://news.sky.com/story/nhs-patients-being-put-at-risk-because-of-cybersecurity-flaws-10657537

[ChillDoubt]

In the Trust where I work we have had a plethora of recent emails telling us that we are receiving more cyber attacks than normal, but we're still running Windows XP on all our systems.
More comfortingly though, I was conducting interviews last week in our Medical Institute but prior to commencing we were warned not to place any drinks on the new table they'd just had installed in the interview room as it cost £3,000........

Good eh?

[Togo]

Sickening Chilled, and these are the people who want to hold all our personal details on a computer base that is not fit for purpose, whilst hiding what they are up to. All under the guise of data protection legislation.

[Gromit]

Ymb,
If they are running 15 year old operating systems, perhaps the cyber security was installed years ago and just needs the updates, hence no outlay for it last year.

Most modern machines have very adequate built in security, so again, not spending does not necessarily mean no security.

[chelle7272]

If they are still runiing XP they are vulnerable as it is unsupported and no lonfger updated.

[ChillDoubt]

Chelle,
That's exactly what my brother said when he attended A&E recently. He was shocked that the NHS were still using XP.
BTW, he works in the IT Dept at Bentley.

[youngmafbog]

gromit, cyber security is an ongoing expense. What was appropriate even 3 years ago would be inadequate today.

And as for running XP, well enough said.

[Togo]

Little story. Almost 4 years ago I spent some time hospital. "She who must be obeyed", after it looked as if I was in recovery mode, brought in for me my laptop. After much bowing and scraping I was allowed to log to the Hospital wifi when there had been a big kerfuffle about letting me have a password. The system was not only restricted but was just loaded with self congratulatory blurb besides being woefully slow. I then remembered that I was with BT at home and could log on to the BT wifi hotspot using our account details and password. Bliss, u tube, videos, and email account available. Boy did that cause a panic. I visit from the Hospital tech man, accompanied by my consultant, who wanted to know how I was getting the internet and unrestricted web access. He did no know about the BT facility and was mighty miffed, I believe there was even a meeting to consider the ramifications. They certainly did not like the fact that I could email family and use the lappie web cam had I so wished. Liverpool's St Thomas's facility was much more relaxed about the possibilities and had basic rules in place because they themselves were up to speed and touch.

[Gromit]

Togo,
Everyone now has a computer in their pocket, often on 4G which can be faster than wifi. So many hospitals tell you to turn off your mobiles when you enter the buildings.

[Togo]

They do now Gromit. But 4 long years ago that was not so, particularly up here in the sticks of N.Wales. The BT Hot spot had only been up and running for a few weeks and was not a public access facility unless you were a BT subscriber and actually knew about it. When I got to Liverpool they of course were much more aware of such possibilities and had a hospital code of practice in place. Still it got me a room on my own.(in case I encouraged others to do the same) :))

[ken1505]

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