Posts by tomuk

NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers

Re: Costs

Based on my first hand experience these frameworks are more expensive than going to the likes of dell, Lenovo or HP directly where you can get good deals when your buying 500 plus laptops. The kicker here is and services so these tenders are keen on doing the imaging aswel plus consulting on what devices you need. This is as far as my comment can go on this. I’d personally scrap these schemes

UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites

Re: Good idea anyways

No china manufacturers are no better

Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

Re: National Hacking Survival?

Only making it available on HSCN would be a good start

Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper'

Re: High experienced?

Critical Systems should be behind the HSCN network which is not public facing and you need a HSCN line to access.

If this wasn't the case why?

Also, I have never known any audit of the requirements for an HSCN line and have seen the form fraudulently filled out to get one. This means there is bound to be so many weak points to get onto this network.

Was when I was in education but we struggled as a school to get Advanced to meet our internal security expectations. They were eventually met. Again you are still down to the weakest member of staff working on your service.