WaTech in the News

License eXpress was the first product delivered by the first Scrum team at Department of Licensing. Building on the success of that first Scrum team in 2012, Licensing now has over 60 IT staff participating on 10 Scrum teams. Instead of dissolving at the end of a project, the teams stay intact pulling in new projects and work. Products of the teams include: improved Firearm licensing system…

In the confusion and chaos surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, it's easy to overlook the fundamentals of cybersecurity. With the sudden influx of virtual meetings occurring in tandem with the dramatic increase in teleworking across the United States, security has become more important than ever.

To address this issue, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently…

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's "Pink Elephant Unicorn" event in Richland, held July 13-14, attracted dozens of people eager to test their cybersecurity skills in a Capture the Flag, CTF, competition.

The event was open to anyone interested in learning about cybersecurity, regardless of skill level. In addition to the CTF competition, there also were cybersecurity…

Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Contact: Governor Inslee's Communications Office | 360.902.4136Washington receives 'A' grade for improving state digital technology OLYMPIA - The Center for Digital Government today released the results of the 2016 Digital States Survey. Every two years, this tool benchmarks the use of digital technologies in individual states in such areas as…

Washington state agencies post a wide variety of structured data on their websites as Excel downloads. You can find them all using the Access Washington federated search. By my count there are currently over 10,000 such tables. Individual downloads are great, but when agencies post tables in an open data portal like data.wa.gov or geography.wa.gov the underlying data can be retrieved in a…