Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and mobile application security vendor MobSTR have won Cyber security solution of the year at the HTN (Health Tech Newspaper) Awards 2026. The award recognises how the two organisations changed the way mobile application security and privacy risks are assessed within an NHS environment.
The Trust has moved away from lengthy manual application reviews towards automated assessment, faster evidence-based decisions and continuous monitoring of applications after they have been approved. Processing times for new mobile applications have fallen from weeks to minutes, and fewer staff now need to take part in each approval decision.
Monitoring does not stop at approval. The Trust can keep watching applications already in use, which gives it earlier sight when an application changes, a new vulnerability emerges or its risk profile rises.
Delphine Fitouri, Head of Digital Services at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Processing time for new applications has gone from weeks to minutes and the Trust has been able to reduce the number of staff involved in making individual application decisions.” She added that the platform gives teams visual, evidence-based information that does not require every person involved in a decision to have specialist information security expertise.
MobSTR Director Mark Adams said manual assessment had taken time from several people and gave only a view of risk at one point in time. “Winning Cyber Security solution of the year with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is particularly important to us,” he said. In his words, a task that previously took weeks now takes minutes, with fewer people involved and better ongoing visibility of risk.
MobSTR is a mobile application security and privacy platform. It assesses mobile applications and browser extensions and reports on permissions, data handling, software components, known vulnerabilities and privacy risks, and it works with NHS bodies, local authorities and charities among others. Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust provides health and care services across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven.
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