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…
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BELLINGHAM - Students might be surprised by the variety of careers available in the public sector and should strongly consider working for government, state Chief Information Security Officer Vinod Brahmapuram told a cybersecurity class this week.
The state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) made a daylong visit at Western Washington University on Feb. 19. OCS was there to congratulate a…
It's summer vacation time again and travelers are busy packing cell phones, tablets and other connected devices into their luggage along with sunscreen and books.
Please keep in mind that cyber criminals are waiting for you to go on vacation as well.
They troll social media sites to learn who is traveling and left their home unoccupied. They also tap public Wi-Fi networks…
Sept. 20, 2016
Sept. 20, 2016
Contact: Governor Inslee's Communications Office | 360.902.4136 Washington 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…
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…