Government & Public Sector

Cybersecurity & VAPT for Government & Public Sector

Cybersecurity & VAPT for government & public sector, built around the constraint that defines the sector: procurement, data sovereignty and accessibility obligations shape the architecture before anything else.

Regulations in scope
5
Systems we integrate
4
Typical first release
6 weeks

What changes when it is government & public sector

We write the report for the people who will read it, your engineers need reproduction steps, your auditors need scope and methodology, and those are different sections.

In government & public sector, procurement, data sovereignty and accessibility obligations shape the architecture before anything else. That single fact reshapes how cybersecurity & vapt has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.

The workload we are most often asked to take on first is case file processing, usually integrated against departmental portals. We build the smallest thing that proves the case, put it in front of real users, and expand only what earns its keep.

Deployed across regulated and unregulated sectors, with audit trails where the regulator expects them. You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.

The sector constraints we design around

Defining constraint
procurement, data sovereignty and accessibility obligations shape the architecture before anything else
Regulations in scope
DPDP Act 2023 · RTI obligations · GIGW accessibility guidelines · government cloud empanelment · e-governance standards
Systems of record
departmental portals · DigiLocker and Aadhaar-linked services · legacy record systems · grievance platforms
Where we usually start
citizen grievance triage

Cybersecurity & VAPT workloads in government & public sector

  • citizen grievance triage
  • scheme eligibility checking
  • records digitisation
  • multilingual service delivery
  • case file processing

What is included

  • Scoped testing across web, API, mobile or network as agreed
  • Findings ranked by exploitability and business impact, not by scanner severity
  • Proof-of-concept for each finding so nobody debates whether it is real
  • Remediation guidance specific to your stack, not generic advice
  • Free re-test after fixes, because an unverified fix is a hope
  • Report formatted for the auditors and clients who will ask for it

Questions from this sector

Can AI systems be procured under GeM?

Yes, and we structure deliverables to fit standard procurement categories and evaluation criteria.

Does it work in regional languages?

It has to. Public services in India are multilingual by obligation, and we build for that rather than adding translation later.

How often should we test?

Annually as a baseline, plus after any significant change to authentication, payments or data handling. Continuous scanning between manual tests catches the obvious regressions.

Will testing break our systems?

We agree scope and intensity first, and destructive tests are excluded unless you explicitly want them in a staging environment. Production testing is deliberately careful.

Do you help fix the findings?

Yes, as a separate engagement if you want it, and the re-test is included either way so you can verify your own team's fixes.

Cybersecurity & VAPT for government & public sector, worth a conversation?

Tell us the workload and the regulation it sits under. We will tell you what is realistic.

Or email bd@dtrasglobal.com · call +91 74118 77878