Cybersecurity for regional and local administrations
Regional and local administrations play a major part in the operation of territories. Regional, general, city councils, fire fighting and rescue services, water management, public transportation, retirement homes are all essential actors to maintain the operation of territories.
Implications in the regional and local administrations sector
In a context of fast dematerialization of procedures in order to boost their efficiency, these entities now strongly rely on digital to fulfill their missions.
Since they use a lot of personal data, the availability and integrity of their information systems are also essential to permanently deliver their services. This digital transformation challenge occurs in a complex regulatory, financial and human context, and faces the threat of malicious actors who have on several occasions exploited the weaknesses of these regional and local administrations information systems to launch their attacks. For several years, DIATEAM has supported these actors thanks to its Hybrid Cyber Range and to contents designed to contribute to the success of their digital transformation. Let’s see how.
DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range, which can be used as a digital twin, contributes to strengthening cybersecurity of the systems and networks regional and local administrations sector professionals design or operate, and allows them to successfully take up the numerous challenges they have to face.
Defending regional and local administrations digital systems in depth and from start to finish
Regional and local administrations information networks and systems are exposed to both generic and specific threats, which can jeopardize its various components, as well as its providers and contractors.
The ability to recreate the whole of this digital ecosystem in its diversity, complexity and heterogeneity makes it possible to anticipate, model, reproduce, and evaluate one’s readiness to detect the various cyber threats which could occur on it. When it comes to availability, integrity or privacy offences, the better you know the threats, the better you will be prepared to protect yourself against it. DIATEAM can rely on its internal Red Team, on its proven experience in the regional and local administrations sector, on its Hybrid Cyber Range software solution and on its close relationship with its clients and the issues they face to make it possible to evaluate, in a safe system, the resilience of regional and local administrations digital systems against advanced threats. Dependencies modeling, resilience tests, hardware equipment integration through hybrid connection are capabilities which directly address challenges faced by publics bodies CISOs to evaluate and ensure availability, integrity and privacy of the whole ecosystem, and to anticipate emerging threats.
Securing life cycle
In a context of strengthening regulations in the regional and local administrations sector, DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range should ideally be used throughout the whole product life cycle, from its design to its decommissioning.
The major interest of the Hybrid Cyber Range is indeed to model and secure the whole life cycle of digital products, to perform operations which would not be feasible in production for operational, security or safety matters, which is often the case in the regional and local administrations sector. It is also very well suited to implement security maintenance, or patch management processes, e.g. to perform non-regression tests, especially with long life cycles like in some of the regional and local administrations systems and networks (water/waste treatment, sanitation, etc.).
Raising awareness, educating, training
Hybrid Cyber Range is obviously a perfect tool to raise awareness, educate and train for cyber crisis management.
Hybrid Cyber Range is obviously a perfect tool to raise awareness, educate and train for cyber crisis management. Awareness-raising is usually intended for executives and decision makers, project managers, technicians, but also for the workforce as a whole to have them face cyber threats that are specific to the regional and local administrations sector, as well as operational consequences that are potentially critical for citizens. Hybrid Cyber Range also makes it possible to produce theoretical and practical training content, and to generate training paths for the staff working in regional and local administrations sector. Finally, training is about making technical or operational cyber crisis scenarios by simulating cyber incident scenarios in conditions that are very close to reality, also when multiple actors (public, private sector: designers, operators, contractors…) are concerned. These trainings, which DIATEAM has been a specialist of for many years, notably for regional and local administrations, allow to strengthen response plans, to test coordination between technical and operational teams in order to improve decision-making and reactivity in a crisis situation. DIATEAM currently takes part in several training projects for regional and local administrations, where the Cyber Range and the content provided by DIATEAM play a major role.
Maximizing return on investment
In a budgetary context that is sometimes constrained, Hybrid Cyber Range is the perfect tool to maximize return on investment.
Designed to work on collaborative mode, even on complex projects, its usage possibilities go far beyond the cyber frame, and it can also be used for data generation and Research & Development operations for the regional and local administrations sector. DIATEAM offers a wide array of possibilities (acquisition, renting, content provision, exercises hosting …) which can provide for a wide range of needs.
Business and technological ethics
It’s in DIATEAM’s DNA to accompany its clients in order to ensure them, with time, as much autonomy as possible.
We do not, and we never will artificially limit our Hybrid Cyber Range capacities. Based on free and open components, it offers maximal independence and interoperability. Finally, you are and will always remain owners of the content you create on it.
