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Washington State Chief Information Security Officer Vinod Brahmapuram participated in a recent webinar hosted by City University of Seattle to discuss the role of cybersecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic. With many people now working from home, Vinod talked about common cyber threats in this new landscape and provided information on ways organizations and individuals can…

By the end of next year, more than 20 billion devices are expected to be connected to the internet.

It's easy to see why. Almost everything we purchase today can be connected to Wi-Fi networks including lights, water sprinklers, refrigerators, toys, watches, shoes - even golf clubs. Not to mention your cellphone, laptop and automobile.

While the so-called Internet of Things (…

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:

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Google Scholar is a search engine dedicated to tracking scholarly and academic papers and articles. It's widely used in the academic community, and offers the ability to see who is citing your work. Use this search link to find all the citations of wa.gov published info:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2014&q=wa.gov+-wa.gov.au&hl=en&as_sdt=0,48

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The bad guys are getting better at what they do and becoming harder to detect. They also have a lot more ways to attack given the growth of connected devices, ranging from your mobile phone to your T.V.

The good news is there are many things you can do both at home and at work to thwart cyber threats. WaTech's Office of Cybersecurity has several fun events planned during Cybersecurity…