WaTech in the News

One of the most important things you can do to protect your computer is to regularly update the operating system. But that won't be an option for many Windows 7 users starting early next year.

Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 7 operating system on January 14, 2020, except for organizations who purchase extended support through January 2023.

For organizations…

Release Date: 12/11/2019

State Chief Information Officer and WaTech Director Jim Weaver has named Katy Ruckle as the state Chief Privacy Officer. She will start Jan. 1, 2020.

Katy will join WaTech's Strategy and Management Division, which is home to the…

Four teams of interns pitched their work product to state agency and tech sector mentors this week on the sidelines of Full Con Tech - the innovative problem-solving unconference in Seattle.

These students have worked through the summer with mentorship from companies like Microsoft, Socrata, Tableau and LiveStories to understand, clean up and visualize data from state agencies…

***The post below is by Zac Cohn, CEO of Wonful Consulting

To all that are curious about our process of generating customer insights, then turning customer insights into prototypes that can be tested with business owners, the post below outlines the methodology and steps we have been following:

Intro to the Innovation Process The Office of the CIO has been exploring,…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert on a Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to take control of trusted SAP applications. SAP has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287.

CISA encourages…