Dear Washingtonians!
Cybersecurity professionals at the start of each year dust off their crystal ball and try to predict what the next 12 months may bring.
As you might expect, 2020 was not a good year for predictions. Who knew a pandemic would sweep the planet and turn our lives upside down? The resulting global shift to remote work forced unprecedented shifts in technology…
Security experts have long advised using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help secure your most important accounts. Now Google has research showing the technology blocks the vast majority of attacks.
MFA takes the traditional user login and password and adds additional authentication factors from two or more of the following:
Something you know, such as a password Something…The department of Labor And Industries has published a bunch of new datasets recently from their Intents and Affidavits program. These are reports filed by public works contractors about jobs done under "prevailing wage" rules. The datasets can show (for example) which agencies, contractors and projects have helped apprentices and journey level tradespeople learn on the job.
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State GIS Strategic Plan Updated! See where GIS is heading over the next four years.
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WaTech's state Office of Cybersecurity will hold several virtual presentations in October as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please mark your calendar for the following events and bookmark this page (cybersecurity.wa.gov/news/hacktober-presentations) for video links on the day of the presentation.
OCS operational planAs Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "Plans are…
