REGULATION & SOVEREIGNTY
Mapping, vulnerability audits and institutional support: ANSSI-BF's action plan to protect the civil service.
Platforms mapped
An exhaustive inventory of the state's entire digital estate to establish the attack surface.
Platforms audited
Penetration testing and remediation of critical flaws on live public portals.
Bodies supported
Hands-on support for institutions in hardening their infrastructure.
Digitising public services without auditing them first exposes government to massive risks of citizen data leaks and sabotage of core state functions.
Security is no longer an afterthought but a mandatory requirement built into every stage: design, development, launch and operation.
Inventory every subdomain, API and database exposed to the internet.
Test portal resilience regularly, before and after deployment.
Apply security patches without delay and isolate obsolete, non-compliant systems.
ANSSI-BF's work shows why every country needs a national authority with real powers of oversight over public information systems.
Centralising audits cuts assessment costs sharply and levels up security across every ministry.
“Digital trust in public administration cannot be decreed: it is earned through rigorous, continuous and uncompromising audits.”
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