For a recent panel discussion on the topic of clinical continuity and cyber resilience, HTN was joined by experts from across the health sector, including Alan Simpson, CISO at Rapid7; Stuart Cooney, CTO at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; and John Mitchell, assistant director of digital at Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.
Our panel considered the evolving threat landscape, current capabilities, emerging technologies, and best practices for ensuring resilience both now and in the future.
Stuart took us through his role at Royal Berkshire, serving about 500,000 patients and 9,000 members of staff. “My role is really to lead on the technical aspects of the trust activities,” he elaborated, “across the development teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and operational teams – it’s a broad and substantive role.”
Formerly a global security operations manager and head of information security at a number of different organisations, Alan talked about his journey since joining Rapid7, a company providing exposure management and managed detection response services around the globe. “We’ve been in cyber security about 26 years, so we do know a…
