Cyber Resilience in Health and Care

Caroline Dinenage Excerpts

Thursday 11th October 2018 Written Statements

[The Minister for Care (Caroline Dinenage)]

My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Lord O’Shaughnessy) has made the following written statement:

In February 2018 the Government published “Securing cyber resilience in health and care: A progress update”, which set out the actions taken to improve the cyber-security of the health and care system before and after last year’s largest ever WannaCry global ransomware attack, as well as our plans for the future. Today we are publishing a further update on progress and development of our future plans. In particular since February we have:

increased our investment in securing local infrastructure in 2017-18 to over £60 million;

signed a Windows 10 licensing agreement with Microsoft which will allow local NHS organisations to save money, reduce potential vulnerabilities and increase cyber-resilience;

agreed £150 million of investment over the next three years;

procured a new Cyber Security Operations Centre boosting the national capability to prevent, detect and respond to cyber-attacks;

launched the data security and protection toolkit;

agreed our plans to implement the recommendations of the Chief Information Officer for Health and Care’s review of the May 2017 WannaCry attack;

supported 25 local NHS organisations to improve their cyber-resilience via the NHS Digital “Blue Teams” pilot and;

estimated the costs of the WannaCry attack.

NHS Digital is continuing to work closely with local areas to build resilience. This work forms part of the data and cyber security programme being led by the Department of Health and Social Care with its arm’s length bodies to improve the cyber-security of the health and care system.

Copies of the “Securing cyber resilience in health and care—progress update October 2018” have been placed in the Library of the House. It can also be accessed at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-cyber-resilience-in-health-and-care-october-2018-update.

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