NHS CfH Information Governance WARP (IGWARP)
The NHS CfH Information Governance WARP is the first NHS incarnation of the WARP principles in an attempt to drive better Information Governance standards for the National Applications being developed for patients. These standards will improve security through the centralised distribution of warnings and advisories, good practice advice brokering and trusted sharing of electronic related security problems and solutions.
The IGWARP members will consist of Information Governance managers throughout the NHS with responsibilities for information security within the National Applications programme delivering IT systems in support of the NHS. It will also include security managers of IT suppliers responsible for delivering against the National Applications programme. The IGWARP members will be selected representatives from existing IG forums which span the whole of the NHS covering different NHS Trusts and PCTs. These forums have many hundred members and it will be the relevant IGWARP member who will be responsible for sharing warnings and advisories as well as collecting information on good practice and incident reports from these forums to feed back into IGWARP members for the benefit of the whole IGWARP community. As well as these internal forum sources, external sources such as UNIRAS and vendor feeds will also be used to generate warnings and advisories and good practice advice.
The IGWARP will also seek to address Information Governance issues affecting the National Programme which includes all the network security issues around NPfIT.
Security and IG warnings, advisories and good practice will be targeted initially at the 50 or so individual IGWARP members through the use of the FWAS software but eventually a way needs to be found to disseminate these across the whole of the NHS with tens of thousands of members, potentially creating further WARPs. It is recognised that the application of the WARP concept in this large scale environment has never been fully thought through and therefore NHS Connecting for Health will work with NISCC to develop the WARP model to accommodate the needs of the NHS requirement.
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