Protection for Government and Defence Organisations

The public sector, especially national and local government organisations, have never been threatened as much as today. Increasing activity by both nation-state and criminal organisations are looking to disrupt or compromise vital IT services.

In the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre publish good guidance for how public sector organisations should protect themselves. In the USA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency does much the same. Indeed, cybersecurity improvement has the highest possible support with executive orders issued as a priority by the Biden administration.

The US GSA, just like the NCSC, have highlighted the need for strong identity, credential, and privileged access management.

At a time when IT has never been more critical to local and national infrastructure and global tensions raise the possibility of attack, all government and defence organisations need to review their IT security systems and that starts with strong enforcement and control of privileged access control.