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Any of you worked on security for the NHS?
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Maybe, if we go into hospital, we should take our own laptops for record keeping.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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I wonder if they thought to have proper backups? Difficult to have much confidence in public sector IT.
If I had a hospital appointment I think I'd cancel it. Might go there regarding a fracture and find my appendix had been removed. Or they might even cut me up looking for my uterus.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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Thank goodness Corbyn is not planning to nationalise the airlines. You'd be heading towards Heathrow and a message would pop up telling the pilot he had to send $5000 before he could lower the wheels.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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I worked in an NHS trust a while back. My experience was that the front-end systems accessed by 98% of people were all very effectively secured, monitored and audited, with good training/threats in place.
On the other hand the back-end systems were far too open to anybody with access, and with the way data was processed - effectively un-auditable. Security in that aspect relied more on trust, judgement and good-will. It scared me a little too.Comment
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Bitcoin is a poor choice for ransom payment, it can be traced easily enough.
Blockchain would be an excellent use case for keeping NHS records. Encrypted end to end whilst keeping data available across the entire network in multiple nodes."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostYou've always had worms. That's why you're so skinny.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by Zylon View PostI worked in an NHS trust a while back. My experience was that the front-end systems accessed by 98% of people were all very effectively secured, monitored and audited, with good training/threats in place.
On the other hand the back-end systems were far too open to anybody with access, and with the way data was processed - effectively un-auditable. Security in that aspect relied more on trust, judgement and good-will. It scared me a little too.Comment
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Originally posted by stek View PostI'm sorry but that's absolute rubbish.
As you seem to have worked in the NHS, you'll know that there is substantial variance between trusts due to the decentralised nature of many of the IT systems, so your experience may well have been completely different - this doesn't falsify what I'm claiming.
To be clear I'm not referring to the core systems.
What I do know for certain is that I and many others who worked with IT/data could easily have accessed, taken off-site, then lost or sold highly confidential data on tens of thousands of patients in the local area had we wanted to.
Another poster earlier in this thread made a similar point to me, based on their own experience. If you're not clear which point you disagree on though it's hard to have a discussion.Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostSo if they've managed to do that, what's to say they're not downloading all of the patient health records. A breach of that would be the largest ever.Comment
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