Ensuring Cybersecurity for Local Authorities

In 2024, 61% of local authorities reported being targeted by cyberattacks, sometimes compromising essential services (source: ANSSI). Their information systems support activities as diverse as housing, mobility, security, and energy—all domains managed by a multitude of territorial agents and systems operated internally or through partners. Geographically distributed, with interconnections that are sometimes poorly understood or inherited, local authorities must deal with strong technical heterogeneity, limited resources, and increasing regulatory pressure. Securing local public action thus becomes a strategic challenge to preserve service continuity and citizen trust.

 

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Your challenges

Maintain continuity of supporting IT infrastructures, essential to all public service actions, despite limited human and budgetary resources
Varied technological environments and hybrid infrastructures whose security becomes the cornerstone of daily life for local authorities
Contexts that increase threat exposure, including blind spots in many cases, particularly related to BYOD in many public buildings
Face different types of threats that are increasingly targeted and stealthy (phishing, ransomware, lateral movements…)
Difficulty in detection (MTTD), identification, and remediation (MTTR) of threats targeting a multiple and vulnerable attack surface
Secure personal data of citizens and agents, subject to strict regulatory obligations

Your needs

Have global and unified visibility of the information system

Map all assets, flows, and interconnections to identify and anticipate critical vulnerabilities and their efficient exploitation.

Detect advanced threats from the first weak signals

Identify unusual behaviors or exfiltrations, even on encrypted flows, through automated multivectorial and behavioral analysis.

Prioritize incidents according to their criticality for public services

Allocate available resources to alerts having direct impact on service continuity or sensitive data.

Anticipate and react to risks specific to your sector

Leverage the native coupling between AI and CTI to automate monitoring, accelerate analyses and priority decisions, while precisely isolating compromised areas without disrupting services.

It’s not the size of our local authority that should determine our level of security. It’s the services we provide to the public that demand it.
Identify
  • Real-time mapping and inventory of all assets and flows, including tools specific to local authorities, to visualize dependencies (business applications, service providers, neighboring public services, personal tools – BYOD, etc.)
  • Continuous traffic analysis to identify abnormal behaviors and risky interconnections between critical services (civil registry, HR, schools…) and their providers or institutional partners
  • Control and management of inter-site and inter-service flows, to reconstruct the network topology of different entities (town halls, schools, technical centers…), often scattered and interconnected without centralized documentation
Protect
  • Global and passive visualization and monitoring of internal and/or external flows and interconnections – Global security of communications between services, town halls, schools, technical infrastructures
  • Control of behaviors non-compliant with security policies
  • Adaptability to heterogeneous environments (IT/OT, cloud/legacy)
Detect
  • Behavioral analysis via a multi-vectorial approach enabling detection from the first weak signals including on encrypted flows
  • Prioritization and notification, from initial compromise of a user workstation to exfiltration
  • CTI enrichment and contextualization to spot threats targeting local authorities (town hall phishing, local tax fraud…)
  • Correlation of weak signals across the entire network to identify complex attacks and reduce your detection time (MTTD)
Respond
  • Orchestrated response: targeted blocking, automatic specific isolation, prioritization according to business impact to reduce your remediation time (MTTR)
  • Automatic generation of recommendations via our GenAI to assist understaffed teams
  • Smooth and transparent integration with existing tools (SIEM, firewalls, EDR) for a global response
Anticipate
  • Monitor your external digital exposure (email and public domains) via Identity & Brand Intelligence (CTI)
  • Prevent network vulnerabilities and externally accessible services based on observed threat trends
  • Strengthen SOC capabilities with GAIA, a versatile cyber assistant for daily operational tasks

How We Support You

SCOPING

Our teams support you during the scoping of your detection project. Our experts work with you to analyze the best implementation and configuration strategies. This ensures you receive a technical specification (DAT) tailored to your business context and IT system. This support is provided both to your teams and as additional assistance.

DEPLOYMENT

During the operational deployment phase, our experts guide you step by step in the precise configuration of the various components of the detection and remediation solution. They ensure a fast and functional integration within your IT system until its complete validation.

RUN

Since a long-term relationship is key, our teams remain available to you and provide a range of services: training, support, maintenance, testing, potential improvements, operational readiness (MCO), and security readiness (MCS), ensuring that your system operates correctly and meets your needs.

TO GO FURTHER
Report
2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Available now: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ 2025 for NDR. Get access to key insights and emerging trends in the cybersecurity market.
Practical Guide
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Decision makers
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NDR Insight
The essential guide for CISO and CIO. Enhance your cybersecurity with Gatewatcher’s NDR: advanced detection, precise analysis, rapid response, and proactive threat anticipation.
Study
Law
NDR
A complete answer to NIS 2 thanks to NDR
With NDR, go beyond mere regulatory compliance. Turn this obligation into a real opportunity to strengthen your defenses.
Customer Story
CISO
NDR
Customer Story: Strengthening a local authority’s cybersecurity – The City of Chelles’ experience
Read our customer testimony of the City of Chelles, a community of 55,000 residents in the Île-de-France region, which strengthened its cybersecurity with Gatewatcher’s sovereign NDR: network visibility, proactive detection, and seamless integration within its teams.

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