Leidos has announced a contract from NHS Supply Chain to deliver cybersecurity support services to improve the agency’s cyber posture and ensure timely procurement and delivery of healthcare products across National Health Service locations in England and Wales.
The award will see the U.S. IT services company deliver 24/7 cyberthreat monitoring while helping the NHS unit update current standards to ensure resilient and sustainable cybersecurity throughout its networks. The collaboration will last for three years.
Matt Wynn, executive director for data and technology at NHS Supply Chain, highlighted how the collaboration with Leidos reflects the organization’s commitment to ensuring top-notch cybersecurity.
“Ensuring robust, proactive security and vulnerability management is crucial for safeguarding the wider business against external threats. As well as being incredibly experienced in this business-critical field, Leidos has a deep understanding of the types of environments we will be working in where multiple collaborators work seamlessly together as a single, unified technology team,” the NHS official said.
The NHS Supply Chain has been working to defend its networks at a time when malicious actors are frequently targeting organizations and infrastructure that deliver critical services. In October, a joint cybersecurity advisory from the United States, Canada and Australia disclosed an Iranian hacking group-led attack that uses password spraying and other brute strategies that target critical sectors, including healthcare, energy and government.