Sept. 20, 2016
Sept. 20, 2016
Contact: Governor Inslee's Communications Office | 360.902.4136 Washington 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…
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…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued recommendations local governments can use to help protect against ransomware attacks.
The FBI notes that ransomware attacks on local governments have disrupted services and pose risks to public safety, as well as financial losses. Incidents reported to the FBI during 2021 indicated that local governments had the second highest number…
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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…