Chair House keeping 

A look at the cyber issues affecting the health sector, based on experience within UKHSA; covering the risk and opportunities of huge data sets, cutting-edge data analysis and the increased utilisation of LLM/ML, with a look at the actions and motivations of threat actors.

NHS Penninecare embarked on their digital transformation project with Zscaler as the chosen solution to provide a security overlay to their SD-WAN to achieve 3 key outcomes:

• Reduce Cost & Consolidate Point solutions
• Improve Security Posture
• Better User Experience and Third Party User Access 

In this 20 minutes breakout session, Jonathan Murden, Zscalers Chief Technologist for the NHS will detail how Zscaler's unique architecture enables NHS organisations to transform rapidly whilst getting best value for money and Mike Culshaw, CTO at Penninecare, will share his experience in a Q&A session.

Synopsis tbc

A live whiteboard session describing:

• The risks identified by many NHS organisations and their partners
• The associated scope and scale of potential impact
• What good looks like
• How Rubrik is uniquely positioned as the last line of defence to ensure cyber resiliency, minimising the impact of cyber events on patients

Comfort Break

Case Study - Forescout 

In this session we’ll explain how visibility across your entire environment, IT, OT and IoT/IoMT, can drive your security automation strategy and provide assurance that security frameworks and compliance requirements are continually adhered to. We’ll also look at how visibility can be leveraged to quantify risk and how introducing security polices and controls, like NAC, ZTNA or segmentation, can enhance your risk posture over time. Lastly, we’ll explain how visibility can underpin Threat Detection & Response, complimenting existing SIEM investments and provide security operations teams with actionable incident information.

An overview of key challenges and opportunities facing primary care information security, and what we can do to resolve them.

As we transform our business models to deliver more agile services the increasing threat of ransomware can potentially disrupt those services causing an impact on society. While we can continue to spend more money or traditional security approaches a shift in thinking to Zero Trust will be more effective and save money. In this session we will address the following topics:

·   How to identify and define risk
·   How to reduce the attack surface
·   How to contain a ransomware attack
·   How to respond and restore services during an attack

Speaker: Trevor Dearing, Global Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions, Illumio

Trevor Dearing has worked in networking and security for over 40 years. He has attended the birth of nearly all the technologies that we now take for granted including, Ethernet Switching, VPNs, Firewalls and virtual networks. Originally an engineer working on some of the first network and cyber security systems. He is now the Global Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions for Illumio

This session is designed to empower NHS cybersecurity pros with insights and practical strategies to protect vital healthcare data and systems . We'll explore why the NHS is a prime target for cyberattacks, getting into the motivations behind these threats. We'll take a practical look at the wide-ranging attack surface, the different ways these attacks happen, and the risks they pose to the NHS. We'll highlight the importance of bringing together your security efforts instead of using separate and siloed tools. Plus, you'll discover how Extended Detection and Response (XDR) can be the solution to boosting your cybersecurity resilience.

As the healthcare sector increasingly relies on digital systems and technology to deliver services to patients, organisations are being faced with more complex risks from sophisticated hacking and cyber warfare. To minimise the risk of disruption or delay that can be caused by an attack on IT infrastructure, we must combine more robust systems with training and support for all NHS staff. In the same way we have seen with areas such as data protection and core technology, cyber security needs to become entrenched. In this session we will look at some of the practical ways that organisations can support their staff to be aware of and responsive to common cyber threats such as phishing emails and password hacking. We will also explore the impact that the modern working environment – from large numbers of people working from home to buildings full of interconnected devices – has on cyber risk and how an open, honest and reflective culture can help reduce risk and its impact.

In today's interconnected world, whether we realise it or not the threat of a cyber-attack happens every day to every sector. Health and care is no exception. Our reliance on technology and the eerie prowess of hackers has given rise to a real cyber pandemic. This session aims to shed light on the importance of preparing for cyber-attacks for the health and care sector and key steps to mitigate the risk.

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