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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, 4 Ways Cloud Makes the Best Platform for Disaster Recovery, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 1 week ago
Disaster response involves several stages covering preparedness, the response to an emergency, mitigation of its effects and recovery. At the center of those stages is critical information that must be backed up, […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Defending Cloud Security, a Pillar of IT Modernization, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The golden rule of security is to always be prepared.
Say you live in a medieval castle designed to protect the king’s ransom. One day, attackers appear at the gate. If you’ve prepared for this moment by bol […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Mission Need Outpaces Development Practices: Use DevSecOps, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Like government agencies and organizations in other sectors, the Defense Department (DoD) in many ways runs on software. “Software has become one of the most important components of our nation’s weapons sys […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Be Resilient With a Continuity of Operations Plan, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 1 week ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced government agencies to think more about their continuity of operations plans (COOP) – or lack of them.
The particular fallout from the pandemic – including widespread tel […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Use DevSecOps to Collaborate and Automate at the DoD, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Defense Department’s (DoD) release of the reference design for the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative aims to help DoD break free of the slow waterfall process of software development it has traditionally […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Focus on Resilience for COOP to Deal With the Unexpected, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Agencies face a series of challenges in establishing continuity of operations (COOP) plans, starting with the array of threats and potential emergencies that can crop up. They can result from hurricanes, terrorist […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Survey Results: Data Analytics Role in Agencies’ IT Innovation, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago
Government agencies see IT innovation as the most efficient way to marshal their resources, improve internal and external services, and make good use of their endless troves of data.
But with agencies’ tight b […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, DoD Software Behind the Times? DevSecOps to the Rescue, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago
For the Defense Department (DoD), the baseline reality is that its software acquisition process hasn’t been keeping pace with warfighters’ needs, particularly when the commercial sector — and adversaries — push ne […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Partnership Proves Key to Innovation, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago
The President’s Management Agenda (PMA), which established the framework for IT modernization two years ago, leans heavily on innovation. And although agencies have made progress in modernization on several […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, How to Establish an Effective Cloud Governance Plan, on the site GovLoop 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The growing complexity of cloud computing has good intentions, but it can also leave agencies struggling to adapt their existing cybersecurity strategies.
Cloud computing – coupled with advances in mobile c […]
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Kevin McCaney wrote a new post, Bake Security Into Code to Mitigate Vulnerabilities, on the site GovLoop 10 months ago
A cloud infrastructure delivers many benefits, but it also expands an organization’s attack surface and introduces a wide range of potential vulnerabilities, especially with the growing prevalence of mobile and I […]
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