WaTech in the News
This week, the WABOS team focused on two major tasks:
1) Prototype creation.
Max put the finishing touches on the first iteration of the Unified Registration Form prototype. This early version is a google form with all of the information Secretary of State and Department of Revenue requests on their paper registration forms. A test user can fill out the single form without…
Dear Washingtonians!
As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
That's why one of my top goals, since appointed state Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) nine months ago, has been to create a sustainable cybersecurity operational plan for the State of Washington that can meet the security challenges that lie ahead.
A…
A capacity crowd turned out this past weekend for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's "Pink Elephant Unicorn" capture the flag competition in Seattle.
The national lab holds the competition twice a year, in eastern Washington and in the Seattle area, as a way to advance the field of cybersecurity and build awareness of computer safety and security. The events are open to…
Imagine:
8 college students from 4 colleges around WA, with 4 mentors from Washington's tech sector and 4 more from Olympia spend 6-8 weeks using Washington-developed data visualization software to concoct cool and crunchable new looks at state open data for the reports of a handful of innovative state agencies.
- and it launched today, thanks to fast and fabulous…