WaTech in the News

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:

Open Data Planning Maturity

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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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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…