Event Overview
Cyber risk is now a patient safety issue. The 2024 Synnovis ransomware incident showed how digital disruption cascades into cancelled care, manual workarounds and system-wide cost. Cybersecure 2026 moves beyond awareness and policy updates to give NHS leaders and teams the practical skills, frameworks and behaviours to build resilience.
This year’s programme is built around education and training-led outcomes, including:
- Identity & Access Management (IAM): hands-on ways to secure shared platforms with RBAC and MFA at NHS scale.
- Cybersecurity Culture & Workforce Awareness: practical approaches to embed “secure by default” habits across clinical and non-clinical teams.
- Supplier Engagement & Assurance: how to use NHS forums and structured conversations to strengthen supply-chain resilience.
- Ransomware & Continuity: preparing “no-payment” playbooks, mandatory reporting readiness and clinically safe downtime workflows.
- Governance Made Practical: DSPT evidence, board reporting and alignment with national strategy turned into reusable artefacts.
What’s New for 2026
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics replace traditional panels - interactive, problem-solving sessions on ransomware readiness and the 2030 resilience journey.
- Candid Fireside Lessons from real incidents - what failed, what recovered, and how to translate that into Monday-morning actions.
- Supplier Engagement Focus - a dedicated NHS session on using supplier forums and integrating supplier risk into everyday assurance.
- Action-Oriented Case Studies that show how trusts delivered IAM improvements, continuity planning and culture change.
Why Attend
- Convert policy signals into step-by-step actions for boards, ICBs, trusts and suppliers.
- Pressure-test plans with real incident lessons - and fix gaps before the next disruption.
- Build concrete skills in IAM, continuity and supplier engagement.
- Leave with templates, checklists and runbook patterns aligned to NCSC/ICO/DSPT expectations.
- Strengthen cyber culture and reduce human-factor risk with approaches that work on the frontline.
Who Will Benefit
- NHS Board members, SIROs, CIOs, CISOs, CNIOs, CCIOs.
- ICB digital and resilience leads; Heads of Cyber, Heads of IG, DPOs.
- Clinical leaders with digital governance responsibilities.
- Programme/Transformation and Business Continuity managers.
- Procurement/Commercial teams and Supplier Security/Assurance leads.
- Vendors and partners committed to NHS-ready security and assurance.
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