The UK’s National Health Service, one of the highest-profile victims of last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware attack, has pledged to phase out fax machines from its trusts by 2020.
NHS made headlines in 2017 when its entire fleet of healthcare institutions fell victim to WannaCry, the world’s virulent ransomware outbreak. Like many other victims of the WannaCry wrath, NHS had poor security practices in place and extremely outdated software on its systems (i.e. Windows XP).
In a bid to prevent history from repeating itself, NHS is now pledging to do away with one of the oldest technologies still in its IT infrastructure: fax machines.
