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Without question the public sector and government entities are one of the most targeted in the global cyber threat landscape.
Threat actors targeting public sector and government entities are usually aimed with specific intent to compromise systems and breach confidential data that may be useful for them. Often carried out for espionage, geopolitical crisis, disruption of public and civil services, hackers-for-hire, are all types of threats and risks public sector and government entities face.
Threat actors targeting public sector and government entities are usually aimed with specific intent to compromise systems and breach confidential data that may be useful for them. Often carried out for espionage, geopolitical crisis, disruption of public and civil services, hackers-for-hire, are all types of threats and risks public sector and government entities face.
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The Challenges

There are many challenges towards securing the public services; these services are public and therefore play a key role in everyday life for citizens and residents, highly critical and sensitive to any kind of breach, misuse, or outage, given social media news and rumors spread like wildfire on public discontentment. Furthermore, many of these local and federal entities have limited budget on cybersecurity given the need to balance security with digital transformation activities. Essentially, public services are high profile and high impact and could impact national security as well public trust.

The public sector is known to have characteristics that are far-fetched from the private sector. Slow to adopt, slow to change and slow to innovate has meant many smaller public sector government entities have not ramped up their cybersecurity efforts to stay ahead of the threat landscape leaving them potentially vulnerable.

For public sector and government entities, cybersecurity is not only a challenge but a rather big obstacle to some of the digital transformation initiatives that are ongoing.

The Challenges

There are many challenges towards securing the public services; these services are public and therefore play a key role in everyday life for citizens and residents, highly critical and sensitive to any kind of breach, misuse, or outage, given social media news and rumors spread like wildfire on public discontentment. Furthermore, many of these local and federal entities have limited budget on cybersecurity given the need to balance security with digital transformation activities. Essentially, public services are high profile and high impact and could impact national security as well public trust.

The public sector is known to have characteristics that are far-fetched from the private sector. Slow to adopt, slow to change and slow to innovate has meant many smaller public sector government entities have not ramped up their cybersecurity efforts to stay ahead of the threat landscape leaving them potentially vulnerable.

For public sector and government entities, cybersecurity is not only a challenge but a rather big obstacle to some of the digital transformation initiatives that are ongoing.

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The paradigm shifts

Across the region (United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman), emirates, region and local governments are making significant investments in information technology and digital transformation so that they can take advantage of the same efficiencies that are powering the private sector’s charge towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This is undoubtedly creating new opportunities, but also the rise of cyber risks.

Local and federal government entities have been targeted at an alarming rate by threat actors and adversaries that are now becoming more advanced and sophisticated. Motivated by broader agendas than we can imagine.

Subsequently, local, and federal government entities find themselves on the frontlines because of the role they play in the delivery of essential public and civil services or their administration of industry and commerce. Indeed, these entities and agencies hold vast amount of personal data, intellectual property and trade secrets making them desirable targets for cyber attackers. It is without question the biggest of threats to these entities are nation-state actors whose mission is to compromise and exploit government networks.

The paradigm shifts

Across the region (United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman), emirates, region and local governments are making significant investments in information technology and digital transformation so that they can take advantage of the same efficiencies that are powering the private sector’s charge towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This is undoubtedly creating new opportunities, but also the rise of cyber risks.

Local and federal government entities have been targeted at an alarming rate by threat actors and adversaries that are now becoming more advanced and sophisticated. Motivated by broader agendas than we can imagine.

Subsequently, local, and federal government entities find themselves on the frontlines because of the role they play in the delivery of essential public and civil services or their administration of industry and commerce. Indeed, these entities and agencies hold vast amount of personal data, intellectual property and trade secrets making them desirable targets for cyber attackers. It is without question the biggest of threats to these entities are nation-state actors whose mission is to compromise and exploit government networks.

To address these cybersecurity challenges, local and federal entities must think holistically and adopt comprehensive, risk-based cybersecurity strategies, rather than simply responding to the most recent cybersecurity incident or headline. They need to adopt a zero-trust security architecture framework, streamline the process of supply chain security and exercise third-party risk management, build collaboration between different government entities through taskforce and workforce development, and seek support from the industry and regulators. Often these entities end up working in silos and therefore unable to collectively contribute towards the improvement of cybersecurity posture within the entities.

Here are our top tips for local and federal governments.

To address these cybersecurity challenges, local and federal entities must think holistically and adopt comprehensive, risk-based cybersecurity strategies, rather than simply responding to the most recent cybersecurity incident or headline. They need to adopt a zero-trust security architecture framework, streamline the process of supply chain security and exercise third-party risk management, build collaboration between different government entities through taskforce and workforce development, and seek support from the industry and regulators. Often these entities end up working in silos and therefore unable to collectively contribute towards the improvement of cybersecurity posture within the entities.

Here are our top tips for local and federal governments.

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