Services stay up. Nobody ever notices.
When government security works, it is invisible: 911 answers, water flows, payroll lands. The job is keeping it that way, with every route to the services tested before someone hostile finds one.
Everything stays up. Nobody ever knows.
Six services, one quarter. Testing found the ransomware route into the utility network and closed it before anyone outside the room knew it existed.
What state & local government is up against.
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Ransomware’s steady target
Cities, counties, school districts and hospitals are hit week after week. The data is sensitive, the services are essential, and the defenses are thin.
A fraction of the budget
The team defending a whole county is often a handful of people, and the salaries that would hold off a real attacker are exactly what the private sector outbids.
Services that can’t go dark
Benefits, courts, permits, 911: people can’t opt out and can’t wait. Much of it runs on systems that predate modern security and can’t simply be replaced.
Elections and public trust
Election and records systems carry a target far bigger than their size. For nation-states and hacktivists, the prize is confidence, not just data.
Shared services, shared risk
Counties, municipalities and school systems lean on shared IT, MSPs and federated logins, so one foothold can reach far more than one department.
Every route converges on the services a community cannot do without.
What you get: every path to those services, mapped and ranked by what actually reaches them.
Ransomware readiness →Testing that fits public budgets and public stakes.
Scoped to the systems residents feel first, evidenced for the auditors and the council.
Traces the full intrusion path a real crew would take, and pressure-tests the segmentation, backups and recovery that decide how bad it gets.
Explore →CJIS-, StateRAMP- and Pub 1075-aware testing that satisfies the auditor and still finds what a real attacker would use.
Explore →The cheap, high-impact wins first, built for a team covering a dozen departments with a handful of people.
Explore →Prepares a lean team to detect, respond and report before an intrusion becomes a headline and a shut-down city.
Explore →The bar the mandates set, and how we test to it.
CJIS, StateRAMP, Pub 1075: the mandates set the floor. The real bar is whether the services stay up.
FBI security policy for any system touching criminal-justice information.
We test whether CJI is reachable from where an attacker actually starts.
Cloud sold to state and local government carries authorization requirements, penetration testing included.
We test to the bar the authorization expects, before the assessor asks.
Federal Tax Information protected to Publication 1075 safeguards.
We test whether FTI is reachable, and show exactly where.
years against real adversaries.
Ransomware crews, patient nation-states: the operators who test your services have spent careers against both.
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