WaTech in the News

This fall a number of agencies have developed and published open data plans. It's been a great period for open data all around Olympia, and we're looking forward to even better as we go from planning to doing in the months to come.

Here's a quick dashboard of the plans from all around state government:

Open Data Planning Maturity

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I'm trying out a new presentation application for my presentation in Bremerton - Sway, a web-native show that pulls together images, stories and embedded code in one spot.

Here's the Sway version of my presentation: https://sway.com/JBEaeBrIQW4qBvFE

Washingtonians who use the SecureAccess Washington (SAW) portal to access state services should be on the lookout for phishing texts that target SAW users to steal credentials and personal data.

WaTech's state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) has observed spoofed phishing texts containing messages such as: "Your SecureAccess Washington (SAW) claim account is currently on hold for…

A team from the Washington State Patrol (WSP) won this year's cyber escape room competition organized by WaTech's state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS).

"We had a lot of fun. It was also a good team-building exercise," said Brian Everson, WSP's chief information security officer. "The escape room was a fun, positive way to go through a 'work location' and find the mistakes we can all…

For a recent meeting I put together a step-by-step stroll through the mapping and sharing features of data.wa.gov.

We start with this map as a starting point:

https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-Community-Anchor-Institutions/5zkj-79xx

From there we drill down into the source dataset:

https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-…