Dear Washingtonians,
It's hard to believe we're entering our third year of the pandemic. This has been a challenging time for everyone, including in the world of cybersecurity.
The move to remote work for safety reasons has transformed information technology in a very short time. While cloud services were certainly important pre-pandemic, they are now central to how public and…
Dear Washingtonians!
Welcome to CISO Compass, a new monthly column where I will share key insights related to cybersecurity.
Education is integral to information security. It is my goal that this column will increase awareness, stimulate broader discussion in the community, and help generate new ideas to combat ever-escalating cyber challenges.
With the New Year comes…
Here's an open dataset on broadband speed tests. It's from the mLab group, part of New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. They have an open API, but for demo purposes, I used the web interface to compare Washington broadband speeds to some US and foreign areas that I think are similar.
Australia has a network landscape a lot like ours - lots of rural areas around a…
Here's a great example of an agency program that uses open data embedded in an interpretive web page: Water Quality. They use this dataset from data.wa.gov in an html "widget" to provide a cool visualization, plus context and narrative written by expert staff to make it all understandable.
September 2014 ECY WQ Stations with Exceeded Criteria
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…The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has launched a new website to reduce the risk of ransomware and help organizations enhance network defenses and be more aware and prepared to deal with malicious cyber actors.
StopRansomware.gov includes information about the critical steps that should be taken to respond to and…
