SME CYBER INSIGHTS: Thursday 17 April 2025 – Today’s SME Cybersecurity News & Intel

1). NHS Cybersecurity – 20 Years of Warnings Ignored – At Our Peril. From 2000 to 2008, Andy Jenkinson was embedded in the £12 billion NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the largest tech project in Europe at the time. Despite its ambition, it lacked a foundational pillar: Real Cybersecurity. Two decades later, the situation has not improved — and the consequences are now being felt on a national scale. Recent analysis and incident reports confirm what many of us in the industry have warned for years: the NHS remains woefully exposed to cybercrime. The personal health data of millions of Britons hangs by a thread, and we’re sleepwalking into a systemic data collapse that is entirely preventable …