In my interim role as the state Chief Information Security Officer, I wanted to touch base on our efforts to improve and maintain our cybersecurity posture.
The Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) is an essential division within WaTech and provides critical enterprise security services to the state and our agency partners. However, like any enterprise service WaTech provides the state, OCS…
News reports indicate threat actors are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak in new phishing email campaigns.
Threat actors are using public fear to increase the likelihood that users will click on a link or open an attachment.
In one campaign, the phishing email reportedly impersonates the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning of new infections and…
For a recent meeting I put together a step-by-step stroll through the mapping and sharing features of data.wa.gov.
We start with this map as a starting point:
https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-Community-Anchor-Institutions/5zkj-79xx
From there we drill down into the source dataset:
https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-…
DSHS publishes current and complete locations of state-licensed nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult family homes. They can be found by subject matter on the geospatial services portal, or on the agency's new open data portal page. You can search and download the data in tabular form on the agency's website.
Dear Washingtonians!
I was excited to see Whatcom Community College (WCC) in Bellingham featured at a recent cybersecurity conference held by the White House in Washington D.C.
The college's National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center (NCyTE) was recognized by the White House for the work it's doing to increase the number of people pursuing careers in cybersecurity.…
