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Governments must build a “web of trust” to counter online fraudsters who exploit natural disasters using bogus help pages that con the public out of money, a cybersecurity expert is urging. “What’s often the most exploited piece of a normal organization – it’s their supply chain,” says Joel Burleson-Davis, SVP of Worldwide Engineering at cyber company Imprivata. “Well, the interesting thing that happens with natural disasters is you create all sorts of ad hoc supply chains, right?

Recent changes to the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) (DAPB0086:Data Security and Protection Toolkit, published under s250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012) have upgraded recommendations around how remote access to systems and privileged accounts are managed. It now mandates that multifactor authentication (MFA) MUST be enforced on all remote user access to all systems and on all privileged accounts that access externally-hosted systems (for example cloud-hosted or SaaS applications).