All through my Masters course, the NHS WannaCry incident was an excellent reference to include in any paper I was writing. I use the incident in our online training course, CyberAwake, various articles I have written (and will write), in courses I run and just yesterday in the Cyber Security Master Class.
We did have a WannaCry incident during my study at Napier. Whilst working on an assignment, studying and testing the WannaCry malware a student made a mistake and encrypted one of the sandbox experimental environments . Notice it was sandboxed, you do not want to be playing with malware in any open network or even on your PC.
Now the incident, that bought large sections of the NHS to their knees and probably started with someone clicking on a malicious email and spread because of the use of old, unsupported hardware and software is five years old.
This week, the BBC Tech Tent talks about the incident. Worth listening to when you stop for a coffee or lunch:
Tech Tent – Learning the lessons of Wannacry, five years on – BBC Sounds
If you would like to learn lessons from this incident and other practical cyber security actions you can take to protect your organisation, then join one of our training sessions – such as:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
