In 2024, the Legislature passed SHB 1947, which eliminated the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and incorporated all duties and responsibilities to Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech), as well as renamed the agency from Consolidated Technology Services (CTS) to WaTech. Previous references to the OCIO or CTS should be understood to refer to WaTech.
Dear Washingtonians!
Cybersecurity professionals at the start of each year dust off their crystal ball and try to predict what the next 12 months may bring.
As you might expect, 2020 was not a good year for predictions. Who knew a pandemic would sweep the planet and turn our lives upside down? The resulting global shift to remote work forced unprecedented shifts in technology…
Security experts have long advised using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help secure your most important accounts. Now Google has research showing the technology blocks the vast majority of attacks.
MFA takes the traditional user login and password and adds additional authentication factors from two or more of the following:
Something you know, such as a password Something…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 statewide…
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…
