Public sector
Central and local government bodies and their associated entities deliver essential public services. Even brief system outages or data leaks can disrupt services and undermine public trust.
The NIS2 Directive (ultimately also the UoKSC) requires incident reporting, risk management and digital resilience building. Each local authority or ministry also relies on dozens of external firms which, whilst not always directly regulated, must maintain equivalent protection to remain in the public services supply chain and limit impact in the event of an incident.
We currently support, amongst others, municipal companies responsible for infrastructure investments and public transport, employment services supporting local residents and foundations delivering enterprise support programmes with ministries – so we understand the public sector's real digital challenges at every level.
Use cases
- Council network segmentation – separation of HR, finance and citizen portals; deep inspection firewalls for public services
- IT infrastructure monitoring – round-the-clock detection of anomalies in servers, databases and mobile apps
- Incident response – isolating infected workstations and rapidly restoring e-service websites, benefits systems and citizen registers using ready response playbooks
- NIS2 compliance audit – security gap analysis, web service penetration tests and executive tabletop workshops
- Ransomware protection – offline backups, immutable versions and regular registry recovery drills
- Staff training – spotting phishing, secure remote working, first response procedures to suspicious events
Do you want to enhance cybersecurity in a public sector unit or partner organisation? Is the goal to meet NIS2 requirements? Contact usand we'll help protect citizen data and ensure service continuity
How we help the public sector industry
Why is the public sector targeted?
- High political visibility – disruptions to public services quickly become media and political issues
- Attractive information assets – databases containing personal data, financial data, tenders and development plans are high-value targets
- Complex supplier ecosystem – numerous companies maintaining systems and networks increase the potential attack surface
Most common threats
- Ransomware in finance/accounting systems or benefits portals
- Phishing campaigns targeting government offices, impersonation of ZUS (Polish Social Security Institution) or other government departments
- DDoS attacks blocking access to electoral or recruitment services
- Supply chain sabotage – malicious updates to citizen service applications
How we help the public sector
- We audit NIS2 compliance (ultimately the emended UoKSC) mapping risk for key public services
- We design zero trust architecture including isolation of office environments, DMZ and e-services zones
- We build Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), including ISO 27001
- We develop Incident Response procedures and incident reporting to CSIRT
- We create full policy and instruction sets needed for audits
- We operate a Security Operations Centre (SOC) with 24/7/365 monitoring and Threat Intelligence for the public sector
- We perform penetration tests and web accessibility audits
- We develop business continuity plans and exercises to restore key services after outages (BCP/DR)