Scottish health chiefs meet to discuss cyber attacks
Bosses will discuss how to prevent further attacks
Health chiefs will attend an emergency meeting to discuss how Scotland can be protected from cyber attacks.
The meeting of the National Cyber Resilience Leaders' board on Tuesday will examine where vulnerabilities lie in computer systems.
It follows the ransomware attack on NHS computer systems which is being investigated by Police Scotland and the National Crime Agency.
Eleven Scottish health boards were affected by the attack which was first detected on Friday. NHS National Services and the Scottish Ambulance Service were also hit, as well as hospitals in Lanarkshire, GP surgeries and dental practices.
Health Secretary Shona Robison says the meeting would look at what action would need to be taken to prevent future attacks.
She said: All hands have been on deck in getting the systems back up and running. The next stage is to look at where these vulnerabilities are, where firewalls didn't work, for example, and to make sure there is a basic bare minimum of security and a requirement across the public sector, not just the NHS, and the National Cyber Resilience Leaders' Board will be looking at what the bare minimum must be across all parts of the public sector.''
The vulnerable versions of Windows which were hit by the cyber attack could have been used by other organisations which she said still needs to be looked at''.
She added: Less than 1% of computers in the NHS were affected by the attack, (which) suggests that the firewalls and the systems across 99% of the computers did actually work. However, we can't be complacent, we need to make sure that whether it's the NHS, whether it's Police Scotland or any other part of the public sector that we do whatever needs to be done to make sure there is the best resilience we can have.
The meeting today is really to look at what the minimum needs to be across the whole of the public sector in building that resilience.''