In the confusion and chaos surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, it's easy to overlook the fundamentals of cybersecurity. With the sudden influx of virtual meetings occurring in tandem with the dramatic increase in teleworking across the United States, security has become more important than ever.
To address this issue, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently…
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's "Pink Elephant Unicorn" event in Richland, held July 13-14, attracted dozens of people eager to test their cybersecurity skills in a Capture the Flag, CTF, competition.
The event was open to anyone interested in learning about cybersecurity, regardless of skill level. In addition to the CTF competition, there also were cybersecurity…
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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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…
