After WannaCry ransomware attack, the NHS is toughening its cyber defences

The UK’s National Health Service is spending £20m ($27m) on a security operations centre to assist in the protection of hospitals following a spate of cyberattacks. The centre will aim to strengthen the service’s current information security system, providing advice on cybersecurity, assessing the security status of hospitals’ IT systems and ensuring best practice is followed. The move comes six months after virtual swathes of the health service were hit by the WannaCry ransomware attack, leaving some hospitals without fully operational IT systems for several weeks.