The WannaCry ransomware attack hitting, among others, the NHS has brought into focus the vulnerability of some public services. Online safety expert Claire Stead discusses four key aspects to consider

Last month, the world stopped and ground to a halt as we experienced a cyber attack of such unprecedented levels. The horrendous series of WannaCry ransomware attacks on organisations across the world, and potentially most infamously on the UK’s NHS, caused a worldwide uproar and without doubt opened the eyes of organisations at all levels in all industries to the state of security in the digital world.

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