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…
WaTech in the News
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…
Advancing IT in a Budget Shortfall
December 9, 2014
Keynote: Art Stephens, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Panel:
Michael Cockrill, State CIO, Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer Rep. Zach Hudgins (D) 11th District Rep. Ross Hunter (D) 48th District Tracy Guerin, Deputy Director, Office of Financial Management
For details…
The U.S Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today released a ransomware guide developed in coordination with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The guide is now available on CISA's website: https://www.cisa.gov/publication/ransomware-guide
The resource was developed for state, local, tribal and territorial governments (SLTT) and…
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…