Protecting the NHS: NCSC fended off lots of meddling aimed at UK health orgs while ransomware ramped up

The National Cyber Security Centre fended off more than 700 cyber attacks directed against the British state over the last year, of which about a quarter were COVID-19 related. Of the 723 incidents, the GCHQ offshoot handled between 1 September 2019 and 31 August this year, 194 were related to the coronavirus pandemic – with a …

[Anonymous Coward]

Surely the most effective design for governemnt systems

Is that they are not connected to the known compromised internet but instad have their own isolated network.

History has shown that anything on the internet is a target and the costs of not being connected has got to be cheaper for the Government than employing yet more snooping on local internet traffic.

Especially when the goverment can mandate networks carry their stuff for free via a nice tax for those that refuse.

This is, for the most part, taxpayer fund infrastructure both in terms of original build but also all the bungs to BT over the years

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Surely the most effective design for governemnt systems

This is pretty much how most of them do work.

Problem is there are so many endpoints/sites with underfunded IT and Infosec at them (if at all). Eventually something happened and boom - wannacry.

[macjules]

"NCSC is also opening its doors in Manchester"

Hopefully not during lockdown.