John Monroe

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

How do you define digital transformation? Many people talk about the technology that enables transformation – and how that technology is acquired, deployed and managed. But at a higher level, you might also say i […]

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 […]

In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, government agencies created a lot of makeshift processes and solutions to continue delivering services to the public, despite having many employees working from home. In […]

The move to a more distributed workforce predated the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many government employees to work remotely. And remote work will become even more common at most agencies in the next 18-24 […]

Recent changes in federal cybersecurity policies and standards are positioning agencies to take full advantage of new and emerging capabilities in cloud, mobility and related technologies.

In particular, the […]

For years, cybersecurity experts have said that the weakest link in an agency’s cyber defense is not a system but a human – the employee who clicks on a link in an email that introduces malware onto the net […]

Any discussion about improving the security of the federal IT enterprise sooner or later comes around to the topic of network visibility.

The concept of network visibility – the idea that an agency should h […]

The federal government’s sudden, widespread transition to a remote work environment has highlighted the importance of its decision to make policy decisions that remove barriers to cloud adoption.

In p […]

Identity and access management is essential to modern cybersecurity. As agencies transform their IT environments through the adoption of cloud solutions, they need to ensure they can easily manage which users have […]

Agencies have traditionally viewed information technology (IT) as a separate discipline from operational technology (OT). Operational technology includes data acquisition systems, control systems, […]

As federal agencies accelerate their effort to move data, applications and services to the cloud, they often run into an obstacle: Their existing cyber policies and processes were developed with a physical IT […]