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John Monroe

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  • DevSecOps Teams Require a Robust Orchestration Platform
  • Enabling Agencies to Succeed with DevSecOps
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  • Ransomware’s Deadly Turn for the Worse (and What You Can Do About It)
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    John Monroe wrote a new post, DevSecOps Teams Require a Robust Orchestration Platform, on the site GovLoop 15 minutes ago

    Although DevSecOps has the potential to unify work across teams while reducing the time to develop and deploy applications, that’s not a guarantee, as many agencies have discovered.

    The challenge is that the […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Enabling Agencies to Succeed with DevSecOps, on the site GovLoop 5 days, 5 hours ago

    As agencies adopt a DevOps methodology, they need to adapt their approach to application security. It’s not just about “shifting left,” it’s about approaching security with a DevOps mindset.

    The traditi […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, How AI Demands a New Vision of the Data Center, on the site GovLoop 1 week, 5 days ago

    Technology originally developed to improve PC-based gaming and multimedia applications nearly 30 years ago is now driving advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

    In the early 1990s, when PC […]

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      Kelly Boyer replied 1 week, 4 days ago

      Wow! I had no idea NVIDIA had a hand in PC Gaming that far back.

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Ransomware’s Deadly Turn for the Worse (and What You Can Do About It), on the site GovLoop 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Like lethal strikes carried out by the Serengetti’s deadly predators, ransomware attacks often unfold quickly, stealthily and with great harm to victims. That’s because beasts of prey, whether equipped with cla […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Embracing Machine Identity Management, on the site GovLoop 2 weeks, 3 days ago

    One of the advantages of modern IT services is that they leverage both physical machines (computers and other devices) and virtual machines (e.g., applications, containers and code) to exchange data and execute […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, 5 Moments in Life to Re-evaluate Your Life Insurance Needs, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 1 week ago

    The pandemic has made two things clear: First, no one is free from uncertainty and the many effects, financial and otherwise, uncertainty can introduce. Second, there’s nothing more important than family.

    The a […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Why Data Management Is Not Just an IT Concern, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    To realize the full benefits of their massive and growing stores of data, government agencies need to think in new ways about data management.

    Rather than coming at data management strictly from a technology […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, USDS, OPM Test New Ideas for Improving Hiring Outcomes, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Here’s an idea: When it comes to evaluating candidates for a job, why not get insights from subject matter experts who have firsthand knowledge of the required competencies?

    That is the idea behind an ongoing i […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, In Recruiting Wars, Agencies Should Play to Their Strengths, on the site GovLoop 3 months ago

    For state and local governments, recruiting and hiring are always a challenge. This is especially true when it comes to fields such as IT, in which agencies compete with the private sector for talent. But that’s n […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Connecting Government Agencies with Proven Industry Partners for Innovation in the Cloud, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 1 week ago

    Government agencies looking to leverage innovations from cloud-based solutions will find no lack of potential software and service providers. Often the real challenge is trying to narrow the search and find […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, What a Chartered Federal Employee Benefits Consultant Can Do for You, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago

    As a federal employee, you’re rewarded for your hard work with more than a paycheck. You also get benefits that make up your total compensation and become part of your financial plans for retirement.

    It can b […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Make Digital Channel Shift a Reality, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Live chat, messaging, social media and related digital touchpoints have the potential to help government agencies provide their constituents with better customer service and to lower the cost of delivering those […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Meet the IT Management Challenges of Remote Work, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, government agencies have learned two basic lessons about remote work. First, the experience has diminished doubts about whether employees could work effectively and efficiently […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Election Security Is About More Than Voting Machines, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 4 weeks ago

    Conversations around election cybersecurity have gone mainstream. Much of those discussions focus largely on voting machines and known security flaws that hackers can use to compromise the technology. But that’s o […]

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      Tammy Seleski replied 5 months, 1 week ago

      In Racine, Wisconsin, back when the county had actual “curtain-drawn, lever pushing” machines in which to cast ballots in every polling place, the machines rarely broke down, nor could they be tampered with, nor were they inaccurate in tracking the votes. The machines only became obsolete when parts no longer were available to maintain them. Since then, I’ve never experienced a more reliable way to cast a vote, nor gather a total than with those wonderful voting machines.

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Detroit Uses GIS to Map Out Highways in the Sky, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 4 weeks ago

    Operational efficiency is one of the four technology tenets of a smart community. It takes many forms, but it essentially involves developing new ways of working that enable agencies to optimize the management and […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, How Crisis Can Drive Innovation for Colorado CIO, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago

    For Colorado, the COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point. In adapting to the crisis, the state’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) has found itself in a position where it can accelerate its push for IT t […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, At GSA, the New Normal Is Not So New, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago

    For many government agencies, the large-scale move to a remote work environment required a new way of thinking — along with new technologies and policies. That wasn’t the case for the General Services Adm […]

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      Kelly Boyer replied 6 months ago

      I like the last note about productivity when working from home. At first, it was a bit of a challenge to get into the groove. But, once I established my routine – I found myself performing better than in-office days even

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Unified Endpoint Security: Bringing Order to Chaos, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago

    In cybersecurity, organizations create chaos with the best of intentions. Their goal is to make incremental gains in security by implementing new solutions that make up for the deficits of older ones and adding […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Simplify Your Data Protection Strategy, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago

    Agencies are struggling to protect data across workloads due to a multitude of challenges: the complex environment of different clouds and on-premises systems, strict compliance and security requirements, and the […]

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    John Monroe wrote a new post, Using the Digital Workforce to Improve Resilience, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago

    The COVID-19 federal response has further shown that not all agencies have what they need to meet citizen demands, and many public sector workforces are overwhelmed as a result. While federal agencies move from […]

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