Awareness campaigns - Cyber security awareness advice for our health care workforce
Stay cyber safe with our handy resources
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On this page
- What is HISF?
- Working from home
- Mobile phone security
- It’s 2024! Take control of your digital safety
- Get cyber safe this summer holiday
- Awareness campaigns
- Working from home video
- Stop, not all links are created equal video
- Stop, Think, and Act video
- Staying safe video (Te Reo)
- Staying safe video (English)
What is HISF?
The Health Information Security Framework (HISF) sets out cyber security expectations and guidelines for health organisations, ranging from small pharmacies through to major hospitals.
The HISF guidelines were refreshed last year, and we’ve put together a short video explaining to organisations what they need to know. If you work with the broader health sector, and want to know what’s been happening, you can watch the video here.
Working from home
Working from home can be a great way to juggle work commitments with family life; avoid long commutes; or simply get stuff done without too many distractions in the office.
But if you’re working from home – even if it’s only every now and then – you need to think about how you can protect the information you’re working with.
To help, we’ve put together some handy tips to make sure you’re cyber safe when you’re working from home.
Working from home (PDF)
Mobile phone security
In an instant, at the touch of a screen, your phone gives access to your personal and work information. Keep it physically safe and protect information with these tips.
It’s 2024! Take control of your digital safety
Welcome to 2024! New beginnings, a fresh start, a reset…whatever you like to call it, the start of a new year is the BEST time to embrace new habits – and that includes getting cyber safe.
Here are our top tips to stay cyber safe in 2024 (PDF, 1.8MB).
Get cyber safe this summer holiday
Summer holidays are a time to unwind and recharge. Cyber criminals don’t take a break, so don’t let your guard down.
We’ve put together some handy tips to keep you safe over summer. Take a few minutes to sort out your cyber security now, and gift yourself some peace of mind during the holidays.
Awareness campaigns
Browse this section to look at our previous cyber tips.
Stop, Think, and Act
Every day brings news of fresh cyber scams. Maybe you've heard of the one from Waka Kotahi, urging you to renew your vehicle registration urgently, or the ANZ bank's Fraud team, asking you to log in and transfer money for safety. These are just two examples of common scams.
We know that it's risky to click on links in strange emails or texts, but it's hard to remember this when we're busy or distracted.
“Cyber criminals design their text and email scam campaigns to get their targets to act quickly,” says Sonny Taite, National Chief Information Security Officer.
“Their emails or texts may feel important or urgent. They hope we'll click without thinking. One wrong click could let hackers into our systems. This could put our personal information and our patients' data at risk."
So how can we stay safe? Here's a tip: When you get a message, first make sure it's from someone you know. One way to check an email is to hover your mouse over the address. If it looks strange it might be a scam.
The cyber security team at Te Whatu Ora has put together a quick video to demonstrate and advise on what to do if you receive a scam text or email.
Get cyber safe this summer
Summer holidays are a time to unwind and recharge. Cyber criminals don’t take summer holidays so, as you relax, don’t let your guard down.
We’ve put together some handy tips to keep you safe over summer. Take a few minutes to sort out your cybersecurity now, and gift yourself some peace of mind during the holidays.
Not all links are created equal
This short video aims to improve your understanding about safe and unsafe links. It provides tips to identify suspicious links. In a nutshell, check link, check sender, Stop.Think.Act.
Not all links are created equal (Vimeo)