More than 60 people from state agencies and local governments across Washington attended two workshops at 1500 Jefferson St. on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24 to collaborate on a new enterprise IT Security Strategy for the state.
Bill Kehoe, WaTech’s director and the state Chief Information Officer, told attendees “what you are doing today is so important for our future in IT security. We have to work together. If we don’t, we are in trouble.”
Bill said the enterprise IT Security Strategy will be the state’s “North Star,” noting that the plan “is not a WaTech plan. This is your plan that you are developing. We need to be one state, and if we do that we’re going to be in much better shape.”
The people attending the workshops brainstormed ideas to answer questions such as “What bold future would you envision that would transform how information security is delivered across the state?” and “What significant internal and external challenges … related to information security do you foresee?”
WaTech’s Office of Cybersecurity will analyze the collected ideas and trends and use them to develop several goals. These will be distilled down through communication with the participants into three to four final goals and goal