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Azure Sentinel: In support of WaTech's security incident and event management (SIEM) project, Microsoft has scheduled some training opportunities for Azure Sentinel. This would be a great opportunity for state agency technical staff to get a better understanding of the tool. Please see dates and times below. Any state agency IT staff who want to attend a session, and did not receive…

Microsoft is urging computer users running older versions of Windows - including Windows 7 - to update their operating systems as soon as possible to protect against a new vulnerability.

Microsoft released fixes on May 14 to protect against the vulnerability being referred to as BlueKeep. In a blog post on May 30 Microsoft stated "if recent reports are accurate, nearly one million…

WSDOT published a cool assortment of travel time data for I-405 a couple of weeks ago; not a ton of promotion of the dataset, but it's out there for folks to explore (here's a link). Now it looks like that posting has inspired one of the community of Tableau Public users to do just that -- explore the data with a different visual (embedded below). Cool example of how even a dense set of…

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Dear Washingtonians,

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! I want to urge everyone to test their knowledge with our daily quiz and join us for our upcoming presentations.

I also want to focus your attention on this month's key word - awareness.

There is a critical need to increase awareness across the country when it comes to cybersecurity.

There…