NHS will use white hat hackers to probe its own cyber defences

Tom Allen
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£20 million will be spent on new cyber security centre focusing on prevention rather than remediation

NHS Digital, the IT arm of the National Health Service, has secured a £20 million budget to spend on establishing a new cyber security centre, which will constantly scan for attacks and probe the o...

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