Secure Patient Care Through CAF-Aligned Resilience


We help NHS Trusts and ICBs build and implement board-backed security strategies that protect clinical delivery without slowing down digital transformation.

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£8m+

Average cost of healthcare data breach
Source: lBM Cost of Data breach report

4 days

of clinical service disruption on average per major incident
Source: NAO and NCSC Incident Reports.

£92M

WannaCry cost to NHS
Source: NAO Report

60%

of healthcare breaches originate through third-party suppliers or unmanaged APIs.
Source: NCSC Annual Review

About RiverSafe

RiverSafe bridges the gap between complex healthcare regulation and technical execution. We provide CAF-aligned security and engineering to ensure digital transformation never compromises clinical delivery.

To make procurement as seamless as our delivery, we are a named supplier on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Technology Services 4 (TS4) and Cyber Security Services 3 (CSS3) frameworks.

How We Help

  • For Cyber & Governance Leaders: We accelerate DSPT and CAF transition (Outcomes A–D) through maturity assessments, SOC modernisation, and board-backed security strategies that protect patient trust.

  • For Engineering & AppSec Leaders: We bake security into the clinical workflow. From DTAC-compliant DevSecOps to securing APIs and Cloud Landing Zones, we enable teams to ship safe, scalable software faster

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Operational Resilience

Detect threats before they impact patient care.

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Clinical & Data Integrity

Secure your EPR, SDEs, and Cloud Landing Zones with Zero Trust identity and automated guardrails.

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Governance & Assurance

Align your roadmap to CAF Outcomes (A–D) and DCB0129/0160 standards and navigate complex healthcare regulations.

Clinical Resilience & CAF Exposure Mapping.

Our Clinical Resilience Mapping is a complimentary, no obligation diagnostic that identifies where your controls might fail under real-world pressure.

It gives you a clear, evidence-based heatmap of your exposure and a prioritised action plan to protect clinical delivery.

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We provide a structured review to identify security gaps and control improvement opportunities aligned to NHS-specific CAF outcomes. By delivering a CIS Maturity Scorecard and an improvements roadmap, we move beyond paper compliance to give you a quantified, prioritised plan for regulatory preparedness and clinical resilience.

We move security from a bottleneck to an enabler by defining clear roles, decision matrices, and intake workflows tailored to NHS structures. By establishing a "Front Door" service catalogue with automated intake and defined SLAs, we ensure faster, transparent access to security expertise, improving governance and clinical delivery efficiency.

We translate complex technical telemetry into clear, board-ready insights for NHS leadership. By developing executive and operational dashboards, we provide visibility into risk posture, control health, and CAF maturity trends. This ensures data-driven decision-making and replaces manual reporting with automated, real-time KPI tracking.

We assess the risks of unmanaged devices within the clinical environment to ensure staff flexibility doesn't compromise patient safety. By delivering a targeted risk assessment and governance model, we help you define clear policies for device access and data protection. This ensures your trust maintains a secure perimeter while allowing for the mobile workflows modern healthcare demands.

We help NHS providers and suppliers navigate the mandatory safety standards required for digital health technologies. By providing a structured approach to DCB0129 (for manufacturers) and DCB0160 (for healthcare organisations), we ensure that clinical risk is managed as effectively as technical risk. This allows you to deploy new digital systems with confidence that they are safe, compliant, and ready for clinical use.

We architect and implement secure multi-cloud environments tailored for NHS workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP. By establishing robust cloud guardrails and automated security blueprints, we ensure your transition to the cloud is resilient, compliant, and maintains unified policy enforcement across all clinical and administrative platforms.

We build resilient Zero Trust architectures designed for the complex, high-pressure environments of the NHS. By strengthening authentication and access controls, we ensure that every user and device is verified before accessing sensitive clinical systems, significantly reducing the risk of unauthorized lateral movement across your network.

We design standardised logging and reporting architectures that turn raw data into a clear evidence base for audit and forensic requirements. By establishing a unified framework for data collection and correlation, we ensure your Trust has the continuous visibility needed to prove control effectiveness and respond rapidly to security incidents.

We strengthen your patching lifecycle by moving from reactive fixes to risk-based prioritisation across your entire clinical attack surface. By integrating visibility across legacy infrastructure and modern cloud workloads, we reduce the exposure window for critical systems, ensuring that remediation effort is focused where it most impacts patient safety.

We design and implement robust controls for the classification and protection of sensitive patient data across both structured and unstructured sources. By establishing a Secure Data Environment framework, we ensure that clinical information is handled with the highest level of integrity, reducing the risk of exfiltration while meeting the stringent requirements of GDPR and the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT).

We build and automate high-fidelity detection logic tailored to the unique traffic patterns of NHS clinical networks. By tuning your SIEM, UEBA, and XDR platforms, we move your security operations from "alert fatigue" to proactive visibility, ensuring your team identifies real threats to clinical continuity before they escalate into outages.

We modernise your Security Operations Centre (SOC) by engineering a more efficient data stack and automating repetitive response tasks. By optimising log ingestion patterns and implementing SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) playbooks, we help NHS Trusts reduce operational costs and improve response times without needing to increase headcount.

We provide deep Subject Matter Expert support to handle the full engineering lifecycle of your security stack. From your SIEM and WAAP to endpoint and identity platforms, we ensure your tools are professionally architected, integrated, and tuned. Our focus is on removing the engineering burden from your internal teams while maximising the stability and ROI of platforms like Splunk, Cribl, CrowdStrike, Exabeam, Akamai, and more.

We implement AI-driven automation to transform your SOC from a reactive monitoring centre into a proactive, high-speed defence engine. We automate the manual triage, summarisation, and enrichment of alerts. This allows your analysts to bypass the noise and focus immediately on decision-ready reports, significantly reducing dwell time and analyst burnout.

We secure the APIs that power your clinical integrations, mobile apps, and third-party data shares. By implementing robust authentication, schema validation, and real-time abuse detection, we ensure that patient data remains protected as it moves across trust boundaries. We align your API estate with OWASP API Top 10 standards and NHS-specific security patterns (like CIS2/NHS login) to reduce your exposure to data exfiltration and unauthorized access.

We help you identify and mitigate security risks at the design stage, before a single line of code is written or a new clinical system is deployed. By applying structured methodologies like STRIDE and Attack Trees, we ensure your digital transformations are "Secure by Design," reducing the need for costly retrofitted security and ensuring alignment with DCB0160 clinical safety standards.

We bridge the gap between security and development by empowering your engineering teams to build resilient clinical software from the ground up. By moving beyond tick-box compliance to a culture of enablement, through hands-on workshops, peer code reviews, and tailored standards, we ensure that security is a facilitator of innovation, not a barrier to your Trust’s digital roadmap.

We transform vulnerability management from a list of "unresolved problems" into an efficient, collaborative remediation engine. By triaging and prioritising application-level flaws based on their actual risk to clinical services, we help your development and security teams work together to close the window of exposure, ensuring your AppSec maturity keeps pace with your digital growth.

We deliver in-depth security testing for iOS and Android platforms to ensure your clinical and patient-facing apps are resilient against modern threats. By combining Static (SAST) and Dynamic (DAST) analysis with rigorous store risk checks, we identify vulnerabilities in local storage, insecure APIs, and improper session handling. This ensures your mobile releases protect patient data and maintain the Trust’s reputation in the public app stores.

We embed security directly into your software delivery pipelines, moving away from end-of-project security checks to a Shift-Left approach. By automating Static Analysis (SAST), Dynamic Analysis (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) within your CI/CD workflows, we ensure that every code commit is automatically scanned for vulnerabilities. This creates an automated gatekeeping system that accelerates secure releases while ensuring no critical flaws reach your clinical production environment.

We provide a dual-lens evaluation of your digital delivery capabilities by combining Application Security (AppSec) and DevOps maturity assessments. By benchmarking your Trust against world-class frameworks like OWASP SAMM and DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), we provide a unified roadmap that balances security integrity with delivery velocity

We design and implement Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) that provide your engineering teams with secure, automated, and standardised environments. By treating Platform as a Product" we enable developer self-service while embedding security guardrails directly into the infrastructure. This reduces cognitive load on your developers, ensures consistent clinical environments, and delivers a Secure-by-Design ecosystem that scales with your Trust’s digital ambitions.

Our team

Naveen Jalagadugu Director of Services

Naveen is a security strategist specialising in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). As the former Head of Security for the UK HM Debt Management Office (HM Treasury), he led the end-to-end security for operations managing £1 trillion in sovereign debt. At RiverSafe, Naveen defines the technical strategy across our Cyber, AppSec, and DevSecOps pillars, delivering cost-effective, enterprise-level resilience that bridges the gap between GRC mandates and deep technical execution.

Phillip Bailey Principal Cyber Security Consultant

An ex-forces infrastructure and Cyber specialist with deep expertise in high-assurance UK Public Sector environments. Phillip has a proven track record of securing mission-critical systems and specialises in engineering secure operational procedures for high-risk, disconnected environments, ensuring total data integrity, regulatory compliance, and public trust across the UK’s most sensitive digital estates.

Graham Bennett Principal Cyber Security Consultant

Senior security expert with deep UK public sector experience across DWP, HMRC, MoD and DfE.

Proven in delivering national-scale security platforms, SIEM and vulnerability management, including estate-wide visibility across 140,000 endpoints, integrating security operations, automation and regulatory compliance in complex, mission-critical environments.

Vishal Baibhav Public Sector lead

Vishal leads Public Sector Business Development, working closely with NHS and healthcare leaders to ensure RiverSafe’s services solve real-world clinical and operational challenges. With a Master’s in Data Science and over 13 years of experience in Data, AI, and Cloud, he bridges the gap between technical requirements and business value while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity and patient safety.

Data Security & Protection Toolkit (DSPT)

Annual self-assessment for all NHS organisations. Mandatory for access to NHS systems and patient data. 10 National Data Guardian standards.

UK GDPR & DPA 2018

Special category data protections for health information. ICO enforcement with fines up to £17.5M or 4% of global turnover.

Cyber Essentials Plus

UK government-backed certification. Required for many NHS contracts. Covers firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection.

MHRA AI/ML Guidance

Regulatory framework for AI as Medical Devices (AIaMD). Covers software lifecycle, change management, and clinical validation.

Caldicott Principles

Eight principles governing use of patient-identifiable information. Overseen by Caldicott Guardians in each NHS organisation.

NIS2 Directive (2024)

EU directive with UK equivalence. Healthcare classified as essential services. Enhanced incident reporting and supply chain security requirements.