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.
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…
For 2016, agencies are required to provide the following:
Attestation that your agency has an IT Security Program in place and that you are in compliance with all components of state IT Security Standards 141.10, or that you are in compliance except for…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
Dear Washingtonians!
I was excited to see Whatcom Community College (WCC) in Bellingham featured at a recent cybersecurity conference held by the White House in Washington D.C.
The college's National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center (NCyTE) was recognized by the White House for the work it's doing to increase the number of people pursuing careers in cybersecurity.…
