Edge resilience and evidence for public services.
Sector threats
Public service risk areas
Disruption
Politically motivated DDoS against citizen portals.
Probing
Vulnerability scanners and credential attacks.
L7 abuse
Floods against login, forms and API endpoints.
Audit scrutiny
Procurement needs documented technical controls.
Disruption-motivated DDoS
Attacks targeting citizen portal availability rather than financial gain.
Automated probing
Vulnerability scanners and credential attacks against public-facing services.
Application-layer abuse
Floods against login, forms, and API endpoints serving citizens.
Data handling scrutiny
Procurement and audits require documented technical controls.
Recommended capabilities
Always-on availability
DDoS protection at the edge via Layer 7 rate limits and managed IP reputation — attack traffic shed before it reaches origin infrastructure. Health-aware load balancing with automatic failover keeps citizen-facing services routing to healthy backends.
Volumetric and application-layer floods are handled in the same inline pipeline as WAF and bot control.
See: DDoS protection · Load balancing & delivery
WAF for public-facing applications
Managed OWASP Top 10 rule packs and custom rules for admin paths, partner CIDR allowlists, and sensitive endpoints. Request normalization reduces evasion via encoding tricks. Response inspection catches error disclosures before they reach citizens.
Body size limits protect inspection capacity and origins from oversized payloads.
See: Web application firewall
Bot and scanner control
Classify vulnerability scanners, CLI tools, headless browsers, and scrapers via managed bot control. Allow verified monitors; challenge or block hostile automation on authentication and form submission paths.
See: Bot management
Structured incident evidence
JSONL access logs capture WAF terminating action, matched rules, security labels, routing outcome, and Request ID — suitable for NIS2 incident timelines, forensic reconstruction, and supply-chain audit requests. Ship logs to your SIEM; export Prometheus metrics into existing government monitoring stacks.
Live dashboard surfaces blocks, challenges, and top matched rules without manual log assembly.
See: Observability & operations
Secure delivery defaults
Force HTTPS, modern TLS termination, accurate client IP forwarding to backend audit trails, and Request ID on every transaction end-to-end.
Policy updates — rules, rate limits, origins, certificates — apply on reload with no application redeploy.
See: Load balancing & delivery