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About NHS Secure Boundary

As the NHS continues its ambitious digital transformation, there is an increasing need to ensure that patient data, clinical services and applications are continuously available, wholly trusted, and robustly secure. A part of this is protecting, defending, and securing the ever-expanding digital perimeter of the NHS.

Our NHS Secure Boundary solution

NHS Secure Boundary provides a perimeter security solution which offers protection against the most sophisticated security threats for NHS organisations. This solution is part of a larger programme of work being delivered by NHS England’s Data Security Centre (DSC) to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patient data, as well as protecting clinical and business systems from emerging threats.

This solution is at the forefront of protecting internet traffic from digital and cloud-based threats, through next generation firewall (NGFW) and web application firewall (WAF) protection.

Find out more about the Secure Boundary solution.

The benefits

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Increased visibility of network traffic, so NHS organisations can better manage their own risk.

Enabling the DSC to identify malicious content within encrypted traffic on behalf of the wider NHS, facilitating enterprise detection, analysis and prevention.

intelligenceIntelligence

Provision of enriched threat intelligence, enabling the DSC to respond at pace and scale during incidents and emerging risks.

Enable working with advanced threat protection to provide a more detailed view of what is happening locally.

complianceCompliance

Provide capabilities to improve organisations’ Data Security Protection Toolkit (DSPT) and Cyber Essentials plus (CE+) assessment scores.

The solution is compliant with CE+, DSPT, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and IT Healthcare (ITHC) regimes and will remain compliant throughout the development of the service.

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Procure at scale to one national standard, enabling improved planning and better value for money for the NHS.

The solution is centrally funded for NHS organisations.

Delivering the solution

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4 months

The setup phase consisted of configuring and testing the platform, and the design and build of operational services, processes and procedures required to deliver the NHS Secure Boundary solution.

This phase finished in December 2019.

collaborationOn-boarding

2 years

The on-boarding phase consists of project teams working with NHS organisations and consumer network service providers (CNSPs) to deploy NHS Secure Boundary.

This phase finished in July 2021.

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5 years +1 +1

Accenture are providing tier 2 support into the NHS Customer Service Function with tier 3 support from Palo Alto and Imperva. The service management function is utilising an IT Service Management (ITMS) Framework with ISO 20000 accredited ITIL v3 processes.

 

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