Industry
Security for Government & Public Sector
Citizen data platforms, e-governance portals, and critical public infrastructure run on long-lived systems that cannot simply be taken offline to patch.
CERT-IN'S MANDATORY WINDOW TO REPORT A CYBER INCIDENT
OF SYSTEM LOGS CERT-IN REQUIRES BE RETAINED WITHIN INDIA
Securing a public sector estate means gaining visibility across systems nobody has fully inventoried, hardening citizen-facing portals against the internet, and building detection and reporting workflows that can meet CERT-In's timelines. It requires working within procurement realities and around services that cannot take downtime.
Why it matters
Public Systems, Public Consequences
A government breach is not just a data incident. It disrupts services citizens depend on, exposes records that can never be reissued, and plays out in full public view. Meanwhile the estate spans decades-old systems, third-party integrators, and infrastructure designated as nationally critical.
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Legacy Systems, Modern Attackers
Departments run software far past vendor support because replacing it means interrupting a public service. Attackers target exactly these unpatched, internet-reachable systems.
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Reporting Clocks Start Immediately
CERT-In gives you six hours from noticing an incident to reporting it. Without prepared detection and escalation paths, that deadline passes during triage.
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Critical Infrastructure Raises the Stakes
Systems designated critical by NCIIPC carry obligations well beyond ordinary IT security, and an outage there reaches power, transport, or health services directly.
Regulatory landscape, India
Compliance built for Indian government & public sector
Every engagement is aligned to the regulations that actually apply to your sector in India, so your security programme satisfies auditors and regulators, not just a checklist.
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CERT-In Directions (2022)
Six-hour incident reporting, 180 days of logs retained in India, and synchronised NTP across the estate.
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NCIIPC
Additional protection obligations for systems designated as Critical Information Infrastructure.
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DPDP Act, 2023
Duties over citizen personal data held by government bodies, including breach notification.
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MeitY & NIC Guidelines
Security policy, hosting, and audit expectations for government applications and cloud services.
How we help
Three services that matter most
Of our 46 services, these are the ones we would recommend a government & public sector team start with.
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Compliance & Certification
Map your estate against CERT-In Directions, NCIIPC obligations, and the DPDP Act, then close the gaps with your teams and integrators.
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Managed SOC (24/7)
Round-the-clock monitoring and escalation paths built to surface an incident well inside CERT-In's six-hour reporting window.
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Vulnerability Assessment
Continuous discovery across citizen portals, legacy applications, and the third-party systems connected to them.
Solutions
Platforms we deploy for government & public sector
Partner technology and outcome-based solutions we implement and run for government & public sector teams, matched to the threats above.
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Microsoft Entra ID
Identity and conditional access for citizen-facing portals and departmental workforces, with MFA and least-privilege built in.
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Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack
Network, mail, and endpoint sandboxing tuned to catch the long-dwell APT campaigns that target public institutions.
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CryptoBind HSM
Indian-made hardware security modules for e-sign, PKI, and citizen-data encryption keys that must stay in-country.
FAQ
Common questions
01Can you work within our existing empanelment and procurement process?
Yes. We scope engagements to fit departmental procurement routes and coordinate with your existing system integrators rather than replacing them.
02Our systems cannot be taken offline. Can you still test them?
Yes. We run non-disruptive assessment against production and reserve intrusive testing for staging or agreed maintenance windows.
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Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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