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Welcome to the City of Seattle's Information Security Homepage!
Protecting the city's computing systems, computer networks and the
information that these systems host is critical for the successful
delivery of city services.
This website is designed to help you as citizens of Seattle or visitors to our site learn what you can do to
help protect against the many emerging threats found in today's computer and network environments both in the
workplace and at home.
NEW Feature - Information Security Jobs List
As a service to the region, we will keep an updated list of current job offerings related to the information security industry. These will be announced at the quarterly Agora meetings and posted here. If you know of job openings, please contact Michael Hamilton.
You can find the current jobs posting here.
OIS Goes Social!
Check out our new Facebook page and 'Like' us to get even more resources and information to keep you safe.
OIS Facebook Page
Be on the Lookout!
Information Security bulletins about the latest threats to your computer security are now posted on our site.
We have decided that you, our subscribers, would be better served if we simply update this news bulletin with timely and
important messages as they arise. New and significant threats don't tend to wait until we have time to publish our
newsletter!
So, we will be posting new items as they arise and as we are able, and will only use email notifications if there is a
particularly dangerous threat. We will keep notices on this letter for about a week and then archive them.
You can find our newest information security news in our current
newsletter
NOTE: We now provide the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed. The summary above is being fed by that RSS system to
give you a preview of some of the items in the latest newsletter. Enjoy!
In case you don't know how to subscribe to RSS feeds and missed the tip where I gave instructions on how to do so - I've archived
that tip here.
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City of Seattle - Your Internet Safety Partner
New Cyber Security Mailing List
Newsletter with tips and stategies to stay safe
The City of Seattle's Office of Information Security (OIS) has setup a computer security mailing list. We will post
a periodic newsletter with cyber security tips and strategies to keep you safe on your work and home computers. We'll
also send out notices of critical new threats and information on how to protect yourselves.
If you would like to sign up for this new service, please click on the following link and then create a New User account.
Computer Security Mailing List
New Security Tip O' d'Week! - Secunia's Auto-patching tool
We highly recommend Secunia's Auto-patching tool for keeping your computer and applications up to date. This is a free tool for personal use.
This is a very important part of your computer safety strategy on all of your home computing devices and Secunia has just come out with a new, improved version.
One of our favorite bloggers, Brian Krebs, has a good blog about it today: KrebsOnSecurity Blog
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Last Updated: July 29, 2012
Website Contact:  David Matthews
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