IT Security for Healthcare

Healthcare organisations are trustees of incredibly sensitive personal data and extremely large budgets – both of which are highly prized by hackers. And as the WannaCry outbreak clearly demonstrated in 2017, cybercriminals can – and do – attack hospitals and NHS trusts and doctors’ surgeries.

The impact of cybercrime on the healthcare industry is not purely financial either. If key clinical systems are taken offline, patients’ lives are in placed in danger.

Fidus provide a range of cost-effective cyber security services that will help you maximise your IT budget, including:

• Analysing and testing IT systems to confirm they are properly patched and updated to reduce potential for malware infiltration.
• Penetration testing to verify perimeter security and internal traffic protection measures are configured and functioning correctly.
• Physical security analysis to confirm hospitals, GP surgeries and clinics are properly secured against unauthorised access.
• Social engineering attacks to ensure staff are properly prepared to deal with ‘soft’ attempts to gain access to data and systems.
• Red Team exercises to simulate the effect of a full-scale cyberattack – and your preparations to deal with a major incident.

Fidus consultants are both TIGER and NCSC Check Green Light certified – so you can be sure we know how to handle confidential data securely and appropriately at all times.