NHS Digital is looking to create a platform to help business intelligence and risk teams better understand cyber security operations.

The plan is to move towards making decisions more based on consistently presented data rather than intuition.

A procurement notice explained that it expects development of the platform to take up to a year, with budget of between £1 million and £1.5 million.

The health service's technology department stated that there is a problem with organisations running on disparate data sources with different business intelligence requirements. This means that things like firewall logs, policy exceptions and asset registers are not organised in a consistent way.

The platform should let teams articulate security risks and their possible impacts, helping them in the definition and delivery of budgets related to cyber security.

NHS Digital has already run discovery and analysis phases. While it has been working with a strategic supplier on the project, the notice stated that none of the supplier’s team will remain in place for the beta testing phase.

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