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I’m not buying this story that there are NHS Trusts that are spending nothing or even as little as £23k/year on IT Security.
Buy an iPhone and you’re getting a device that has had billions spent making it secure – something that was highlighted by the fact that the FBI couldn’t even unlock it.
By the logic used by SkyNews a NHS Trust might say they have zero IT Security spend even though they just spent £10 million buying iPhones and iPads for staff. Similarly a NHS Trust that supported staff who brought in their own (maybe £20 million worth) smartphones to use at work just effectively realised millions of £s worth of cybersecurity for next to nothing.
There’s no denying that NHS Trusts aren’t spending enough in this area but the big gains are in adopting the tools of our time and training staff to use them.