Public-sector cybersecurity
Modernize your defenses to prevent disruptions
Protect state, local, and educational operational continuity by mitigating risk and improving cybersecurity resilience across all attack surfaces
Deliver secure, uninterrupted service
Fast-track your security objectives to protect operations and ensure high-quality service delivery
Cybersecurity Consulting
Accelerate your cybersecurity objectives with expertise in strategy and planning, compliance management, and risk reduction.
Managed Network Security
Empower users to work from anywhere by modernizing network security and tightly controlling and managing access to your hybrid network environment.
Threat Detection and Response
Detect and respond to threats effectively and efficiently across your attack surface, with centralized visibility, embedded threat intelligence, AI, and advanced analytics.
Cybersecurity Consulting
Boost cyber resilience with services tailored to your organization
Identify and manage risks across your attack surface. Improve proactive prevention and mitigation of vulnerabilities, and potential security threats. Quickly report on security impacts for regulatory and government compliance - mandates, while protecting sensitive data and ensuring the continuity of essential services for your community.
Managed Network Security
Solutions to help advance your network security infrastructure
Improve access control and management to your network and sensitive data, while empowering hybrid work. Protect network infrastructure from increasingly powerful DDoS attacks, helping to ensure the continuous operation of your organization’s critical services. And, deploy faster with expert guidance and support, flexible service delivery, and the industry’s most advanced security platforms.
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Threat Detection and Response for Government
Ensure safe cyber experiences for all state and local stakeholders
A platform to help you securely handle sensitive and highly regulated public sector data. Built on our FedRAMP-authorized, USM Anywhere platform in the AWS GovCloud (US), TDR for Gov provides leading threat detection and response capabilities for highly sensitive workloads with specific regulatory requirements and data encryption in compliance with FIPS 140-2. TDR for Gov is available as a fully managed service, or you can manage it yourself.
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FAQs
You have questions. We have answers.
Why are government agencies prime targets for cyberattacks?
Three elements combine to make government data systems highly attractive to cybercriminals: First, by their nature, government entities are relatively open to a very broad collection of users—some of whom have very limited experience online, which leaves them vulnerable to intrusive actions; second, the entities generally keep a high profile, which makes them attractive targets to foreign political actors, politically motivated hackers, and others; and third, the cybersecurity budgets of public entities are generally much more restricted than non-governmental organizations and businesses.
What are the common challenges in government cybersecurity?
By definition, government entities face both economic and logistical challenges where technological advancements are involved. Many government bodies must comply with complex bidding processes, which can delay adoption of emerging cybersecurity approaches, and most must operate within tight procurement budgets. Aside from sourcing and implementing updated cybersecurity technology, governments are also somewhat challenged where recruitment is concerned. Not only must they overcome the extreme shortages in skilled personnel, but they face challenges where it comes to offering highly competitive salaries and benefits.
Why is a consolidated security architecture important for governments?
Governments, at all levels, are highly interactive, with data flowing between them and the general public. This makes them extremely vulnerable to certain types of cyberattacks. The flow of data also creates a very large attack surface, but with relatively deep individual wells of critical data. This interconnectivity makes a consolidated data security network extremely important to safeguard information related to both government operations and individual citizens.
What can effective cybersecurity enable governments to accomplish?
At the most basic level, good cybersecurity can enable government to meet its fundamental goal of providing excellent services to its clients—whether at the local, regional or national level. Effective cybersecurity can help improve users’ experience—enhancing the trust of stakeholders by streamlining processes and improving compliance. Implementing advanced software and effective counter-measures can help counteract sophisticated threats before they have an opportunity to compromise your network, ensuring that your organization can do its part to safeguard the privacy of stakeholders and continue to provide essential services.
How can governments improve their cybersecurity?
The ever-changing face of cyberthreats requires ongoing vigilance. To stay ahead of emerging cyberthreats it’s essential to follow a comprehensive approach to combatting malware and ransomware while continuously evolving your defenses to meet new attack vectors and technologies. It’s critical that government source the help it needs to maintain an edge against rising threats.