Like all state agencies, Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) works hard to respond well and timely to public records requests. Today the agency is publishing a table of its public records requests for the last few years.
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The Secretary of State publishes a searchable database of all the corporations in Washington with their UBI, registered agent, profit/nonprofit status etc. Very cool. They also offer a downloadable flat file in either XML or tab-separated format. It's a big file though -- about a gigabyte.
Here's what a sample set of the database looks like in data.wa.gov:
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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…
The WA State Department of Revenue has developed a very cool new visualization of the savings to taxpayers from various tax incentives and policies. It's a Tableau interactive visualization posted online, (see below) and the data behind it is also available for bulk download as an Excel file.
The visualization and data are part of the new 2016 Tax Exemption Study…
