Cyber security

Cyber security criminals are becoming more sophisticated and difficult to detect. Therefore, we are asking everyone to be careful when they are online at work and at home and to help protect the Trust from this type of attack.

Everyone can play a crucial role in helping to defend the Trust from an cyber-attacks of different kinds including phishing and ransomware.

Please take the following action:

• Be suspicious of emails that ask you to share or check your login/password with a link
• Do not click on links or attachments from people you do not know and were not expecting to receive.
• Do not share your password with anyone, this includes log in credentials, Datix, CAD Online etc.
• If the content of the email tries to persuade you to do something that seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• Check for spelling and grammatical errors in emails – these are often a tell-tale sign of spam.
• Remember even an innocent email stating you have signed up for account to a site you haven’t visited could also be an attempt to gain access to your information, and access to Trust or home devices.

• Always check the email account a suspicious email is being sent from. An email might look like its coming from informationgovernance@eastarnb.co.uk  but on closer inspection the word which should be ‘amb’ is actually “arnb” – if you were busy and not concentrating would you have spotted the error?

We all hope that we would able to spot a phishing attempt. However cyber security criminals are becoming increasingly difficult to detect, so please follow the advice above.

If you have any questions please email informationgovernance@eastamb.nhs.uk.

Please forward any suspicious emails to phishing@eastamb.nhs.uk

Published 25th March 2022

11th April 2022