Protecting our digital medicine infrastructure

Published Date: 23rd December 2019

Publication Authors: Connor M

On Friday 12th May at 11:30 a.m., the information technology (IT) helpdesk at our hospital received four calls from people around our organisation, who reported seeing a strange message appear on their screen. The message displayed would become familiar to many thousands of computer users over the ensuing few hours and days, and to millions more beyond that as the extent and fall out of the Wannacry cyberattack became clearer.

Adams, T; Connor, M; Whittaker, R. (2019). Protecting our digital medicine infrastructure . NPJ Digital Medicine. epub Oct 2

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