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Nhs network security
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An article [I think is] worth reading is this one from The Register, published this morning.
This included the interesting sentence: At the start of 2014, when The Reg investigated the matter, the NHS in England was running around 1.086 million Windows PCs and laptops at trusts, GPs and other health groups.
[My bolding] Quite an amount of patching involved - for those machines that aren't running XP!0 -
Not really. All automated these days. Once the patch is ready it can be pushed out to all machines within a few hours.[My bolding] Quite an amount of patching involved - for those machines that aren't running XP!
The only thing we had to do in our hospital was to go around and ensure all pcs were switched on so they could accept the patch. If we couldn't get access then the pat h would hit them within minutes of being powered up on the Monday. The only reason we tried to do as many on the weekend is that a forced reboot with no warning was part of the patch. We wanted to mini isethe risk of people looking their work when it rebooted without warning.0
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