NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

A programme to improve national cybersecurity capability following the Waikato cyberattack has slashed response times to high severity events and meant the system was not significantly impacted by the CrowdStrike outage. 

The national Cybersecurity Uplift Programme was launched to address critical security gaps identified in the aftermath of the 2021 Waikato DHB ransomware attack. 

The three-year programme finished at the end of June 2024, and a further two years of funding has been provided to maintain the maturity achieved so far. 

"At the end of that incident, the lessons learned were worked through, and we found we had a number of gaps in our security posture and our ability to protect ourselves at the district level," says Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora chief information security officer (CISO) Sonny Taite. 

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