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.
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's "Pink Elephant Unicorn" event in Richland, held July 13-14, attracted dozens of people eager to test their cybersecurity skills in a Capture the Flag, CTF, competition.
The event was open to anyone interested in learning about cybersecurity, regardless of skill level. In addition to the CTF competition, there also were cybersecurity…
Sept. 20, 2016
Sept. 20, 2016
Contact: Governor Inslee's Communications Office | 360.902.4136Washington receives 'A' grade for improving state digital technology OLYMPIA - The Center for Digital Government today released the results of the 2016 Digital States Survey. Every two years, this tool benchmarks the use of digital technologies in individual states in such areas as…
Washington state agencies post a wide variety of structured data on their websites as Excel downloads. You can find them all using the Access Washington federated search. By my count there are currently over 10,000 such tables. Individual downloads are great, but when agencies post tables in an open data portal like data.wa.gov or geography.wa.gov the underlying data can be retrieved in a…
In my interim role as the state Chief Information Security Officer, I wanted to touch base on our efforts to improve and maintain our cybersecurity posture.
The Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) is an essential division within WaTech and provides critical enterprise security services to the state and our agency partners. However, like any enterprise service WaTech provides the state, OCS…
News reports indicate threat actors are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak in new phishing email campaigns.
Threat actors are using public fear to increase the likelihood that users will click on a link or open an attachment.
In one campaign, the phishing email reportedly impersonates the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning of new infections and…
