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Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, healthcare institutions recognized the need to modernize legacy systems and operations to better serve their communities. However, the pandemic created an inflection point and the shift to digital became a necessity, to ensure delivery of care in the home and away from traditional health and care settings. This transformation in care and the move to have more people working at home, needs to be done safely and securely.
Cybersecurity for healthcare is a complex issue, and healthcare is a target for attacks both direct and in-direct. In an environment of growing demands and limited resources, the health organizations need to transform their cybersecurity systems because cyber threats aren’t just an IT risk, they endanger patient-facing services that can affect clinical safety and the ability to deliver timely care to patients. This is ever more important as we move digitally and provide care in different ways – as COVID-19 has driven.
Join us in our panel discussion with NHS Digital to find out what was NHS Digital’s response to the pandemic, from the Data Security Center to the vaccination programme, and to talk about challenges that healthcare will experience over coming months/years and the support that IBM can deliver in this space.
Dan Joined IBM in September 2019 after nearly 5 years working as the NHS Digital Direct of Cyber Security where he launches the Data Security Centre to support health and care organizations and brought into live the NHS Cyber Security Operations Centre. He now leads healthcare and life-sciences for IBM Security in the European Centre of Competency with a keen focus on people, their use of technology and how that can drive better cyber security. Working within health for over 10 years, he has a mission to embed security as part of the fabric of how health operates to support improved digitally enabled health outcomes.
Neil Bennett is the Chief Information Security Officer at NHS Digital, responsible for leading their Data Security Centre.
Neil has over 25 years of experience in the complex health and care sector. Before joining the NHS, Neil worked in the private sector delivering services into the NHS. After that, Neil moved to the NHS spending the last few years running their national scale technology, digital and data Live Services operation. More recently, Neil made the transition into the CISO position.
Neil has a strong passion to support the digitisation of the NHS by building public trust and ensuring safe patient care through effective information security.