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The Office of CyberSecurity's escape room challenges players to work as a team to find hidden clues and solve a series of puzzles within 25 minutes. The purpose of the competition is to heighten awareness about common bad practices many people fall into when it comes to securing their digital information. This year's escape room offers a different look and new puzzles to solve.

The…

The statewide strategic plan has a number of inputs including:

Enterprise business goals and priorities as laid out in Results Washington The vision of the state CIO The advice of the Technology Services Board The voice of agency CIOs Legislative expectations as laid out in statue, including RCW 43.105, and Technology trends.

Using information from all these sources, the…

Software Retirement Bulletin: October 2015 is now available for your use. It contains information about upcoming end of support and end of mainstream support for several commonly used software products. This information is published to support agency software migration planning.

Note note that Adobe Acrobat Version 10 products go out of support on November 15th. Agencies…

Longitudinal data collection efforts can be very diverse indicators of change, and when they involve real-world observations and explanations of water conditions on the Sound from ferries, moorings and floatplanes you get a wonderful resource for educators, scientists and people who work on the water.

That's the Eyes Over Puget Sound report from Department of Ecology. Updated…

Headlines about public and private organizations worldwide falling victim to ransomware or data breaches have become all too common. We all must remain vigilant at home and at the office.

This year, WaTech's state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) is participating in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) with an expanded daily quiz (see below) that serves as a fast and fun way to…