Cyber Security Strategy

Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System's (ICS) vision is to become cyber leaders amongst our peers by contributing to developing and maintaining a secure health and care system across Cheshire and Merseyside.

We will achieve this by protecting our organisations, as well as information systems and critical assets that support our essential functions from cyber threats, ensuring the safety of our staff and patients.

As a result, we have designed this five-year Cyber Security Strategy to enable us to strengthen our security posture and further improve organisational resilience.

As such, this Strategy document details the following:

• Our proposed cross-community cyber security initiatives, which will enable us to take advantage of economies of scale that come from working as one;
• Our approach to minimising the impact of cyber incidents and ensuring patient data security;
• Proposes an ICS-wide cyber security governance structure that maximises value; and
• Defines clear metrics, in a form of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)to measure success.