Publish date: 1 October 2021
The Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership’s Cyber Security Group will be launching their annual #BeCyberSavvy campaign today (1 October), to coincide with Cyber Security Awareness Month.
The campaign aims to help staff in health and social care settings across the region, to gain an understanding of the threat of cybercrime and the ways in which their actions can help or hinder these types of attacks.
Cyber security is of particular importance to staff in health and social care settings, because as the healthcare we deliver transforms, so do the threats – with increased connectivity of and between medical devices, health records, patient personal information and networks between all care organisations.
This coupled with the fact that it’s more likely that data breaches will originate from human negligence than a technical failure, is why we’ve chosen to focus this year’s campaign on the premise that cyber security is a shared responsibility that should involve every member of staff within all organisations, whatever their role.
For more information, visit: www.be-cybersavvy.co.uk/
