Helping NHS Providers Accelerate Data Security and Protection Toolkit Self-Assessment

The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) is a tool organisations can use to evaluate their adherence to the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards. All organisations handling NHS patient data and systems, including electronic personal health information (ePHI) are required to use this toolkit to ensure proper handling of personal information and sound data security practices.

But for many organisations, creating and maintaining an accurate and up-to-date inventory of devices can be a heavy draw on already strained resources. By automating the identification of devices communicating over the network and identifying risks and vulnerabilities including those in NHS cyber alerts.

Healthcare Environments are Increasingly Hard to Secure

Connected devices are growing at an unprecedented rate in healthcare. Advances in virtual and connected care are driving compelling use cases for the additional data, cost savings and improvement to patient experience and patient safety that IoT, IoMT, IT and OT assets can provide.

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