Cybersecurity
Security architecture and operations for estates where the threat model includes state-level actors and where an incident is a public event, not only an operational one.
Government & Public Sector
Public systems, public scrutiny, and budgets that arrive in cycles.
What we see in this sector
Not an industry primer — you know your sector. These are the technology pressures we are most often called in for.
- Citizen-facing services expected to match private-sector experience, on platforms procured under public rules and long approval cycles.
- Data sovereignty questions that no vendor's marketing answers, and that a project cannot proceed past without a written position.
- Legacy systems that cannot be replaced this year — or possibly this decade — and still have to be defended and integrated.
- Capability that must remain inside the institution when the contract ends, rather than leaving with the supplier.
Which of our domains answers what
The point of this page: from a sector pressure to the technology domain that addresses it, and the delivery model that fits how you buy.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure designed for long service life, in-country operation, and continuity requirements written for public obligation rather than commercial preference.
Networking
Networks connecting sites, agencies and citizen access points, with segmentation between them that reflects the real authority boundaries.
Software & Platforms
Citizen-facing platforms and integrations with the identity, audit and accessibility obligations built in from the first sprint rather than retrofitted before launch.
How it is usually delivered here
Public sector engagements are shaped by procurement and by handover. We plan for both: phased delivery that survives budget cycles, and a training workstream so the capability stays in the institution rather than in our team.
Regulatory and compliance considerations
Read the labels. A named standard is a thing that exists; a question is a thing we help you establish for your organisation — and we will not tell you what your obligations are from a web page.
Data sovereignty and national frameworks
A question we help you answerNational requirements for where public data resides and who may operate it differ by country and are updated. We do not state what applies to your entity. The engagement begins by establishing the applicable framework with your legal and policy owners, and the architecture is designed to that written position.
Procurement and evaluation criteria
A question we help you answerHow your entity may buy — framework agreements, tendering thresholds, evaluation weightings — shapes the technical design more than most vendors admit. We ask early, because a design that cannot be procured is not a design.
Accessibility standards
Named standardCitizen-facing services carry accessibility obligations, and WCAG 2.2 AA is the level public procurement most often references. We build to it by default rather than on request, and it is verified by testing — an accessibility claim nobody has run a tool against is not evidence.
Records, retention and disclosure
A question we help you answerPublic bodies typically carry retention schedules and freedom-of-information obligations that shape system design and logging. We establish yours with your records officer rather than assuming a general rule, because the technical consequences — what is logged, kept and disclosable — follow directly from it.
Nothing on this page is legal or regulatory advice, and it names no article numbers, effective dates or authority determinations. Your obligations depend on your licence, your jurisdiction, your data and your regulator's current position — which is exactly what the assessment establishes, in writing, before any design work starts.
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