Security experts have long advised using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help secure your most important accounts. Now Google has research showing the technology blocks the vast majority of attacks.
MFA takes the traditional user login and password and adds additional authentication factors from two or more of the following:
Something you know, such as a password Something…The department of Labor And Industries has published a bunch of new datasets recently from their Intents and Affidavits program. These are reports filed by public works contractors about jobs done under "prevailing wage" rules. The datasets can show (for example) which agencies, contractors and projects have helped apprentices and journey level tradespeople learn on the job.
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WaTech's state Office of Cybersecurity will hold several virtual presentations in October as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please mark your calendar for the following events and bookmark this page (cybersecurity.wa.gov/news/hacktober-presentations) for video links on the day of the presentation.
OCS operational planAs Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "Plans are…
William Cram, who is earning a computer science degree, knows security is important but said a recent workshop held at Renton Technical College by the state Office of CyberSecurity (OCS) helped open his eyes.
"I didn't realize how much we are under attack," Cram said.
The workshop, held on April 9, provided information on common cybersecurity threats, such as phishing attacks,…
