NHS Cybersecurity: Breaches Up, Spending Low

A new Freedom of Information (FoI) request has uncovered a litany of cybersecurity failings by NHS trusts across the UK.

Sky News received responses from 97 trusts and found data breaches in the health service had risen from 3133 in 2014 to 4177 last year.

What’s more, the average annual amount spent on cybersecurity was just £23,000, although six trusts claimed to fork out over £100,000.

More worrying is the fact that 45 trusts were unable to put a figure on spending at all, while seven trusts serving more than two million people spent nothing at all in 2015, the report claimed.

The news site engaged consultancy Hacker House to do some digging and claimed to have found that “security across the board was weak for many factors.” For the full article click here 

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