The ‘very real and present’ threat
The public sector is facing unprecedented challenges. Increasingly complex threats are being compounded by a huge rise in remote working, which has sounded the death knell for the traditional perimeter. Now, security must go seamlessly where the user goes – and trying to do that with legacy, siloed point products is unsustainable. Paired with this, the public sector is struggling to compete against the private sector in the battle for skilled security professionals. This shortage of talent all too often leads to alert overload.
The public sector is truly facing the perfect storm.
How can the public sector better manage their cyber risk?
With the both the number of attacks and level of sophistication increasing, the threat to public sector data has never been so high. It’s essential to find new ways of keeping data secure, whilst still keep budget and resource limitations in mind.
Zero Trust
One approach that some organisations are taking is ‘zero-trust’. Zero Trust is a security model that requires strict identity verification for every person and device trying to access resources, regardless of their location – whether you’re working from home or sitting within the network perimeter.
Autonomous Integrated Security
Integrated security driven from a single cloud-based platform relieves this pressure on the public sector, enabling a proactive response to threats and effective threat intelligence sharing. Organisations can eliminate the vulnerabilities that sit between and across major attack surfaces by connecting email, web and cloud application security using identity and context.
Crucially, consolidating security with a coordinated approach makes cybersecurity easier to manage and helps future-proof defences. The cloud security platform both keeps pace with and enables change, adapting as public sector organisations add new services or adopt new applications.
