Managing Risk in the National Health Service CHALLENGE The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) security made the headlines in 2017 when the WannaCry and Petya ransomware attacks took cyber crime to a new scale, never seen before. Some 200,000 organisations were affected in over 150 countries and in the UK, it was the NHS that felt the full force of the attack across 48 health trusts in England. But while many IT departments were frantically trying to mitigate the impact of the ransomware attacks on a Friday afternoon in May, the team at Care Plus Group in North East Lincolnshire were looking forward to the weekend. F4 IT is part of Care Plus Group and currently supports 14 organisations and over 2,000 staff. Their clients provide a wide range of services from community nursing and

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