The NHS is made up of more than 8,000 organisations with many more across the wider health and care sector. This makes maintaining robust cyber security a challenge. There has been a surge of new digital technologies being used in healthcare in the last few years and ever-larger quantities of data are being generated. This provides opportunities to improve the health and care, but also presents enormous risks in protecting data and maintaining safety, privacy and trust of patients.

In 2017 the WannaCry global cyber attack compromised IT across the NHS and demonstrated its vulnerability. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an increase in cyber criminals targeting healthcare organisations with scams and phishing emails.

Cyber resilience in healthcare is now a high priority and organisations are being encouraged to take a proactive rather than reactive approach to securing networks, devices and data. This event will provide valuable insight into what steps organisations across the healthcare supply chain are taking to improve cyber security. It will detail the latest resources and support that is available from government and NHS agencies to support their initiatives. Best practice examples of innovative cyber security projects will be also detailed through case study examples.