One forgotten subdomain can expose a whole agency.
Government bodies hold citizen records, run services people rely on, and draw attention from ransomware gangs and state-sponsored groups. Cypho finds the portals, APIs and domains you expose across departments, watches the dark web for leaked credentials and documents, and flags sites and accounts that impersonate you.
- Open issues
- 414 critical, 11 high
- In review
- 6Waiting for triage
- Time to acknowledge
- 2h 30mMean, last 30 days
- Time to resolve
- 1d 4hMean, last 30 days
Open issues by category
- Employee credentials in stealer logs12
- Lookalike domains9
- Company documents on file-sharing services7
- Mentions in messaging channels5
- Open ports and misconfigurations5
- Certificates close to expiry3
Most affected assets
- vpn.example.com7 findingsCritical
- mail.example.com5 findingsHigh
- dev-old.example.com4 findingsCritical
- 203.0.113.243 findingsHigh
- app.example.com2 findingsModerate
Shared citizen data means shared exposure.
Identity records, tax and health information, immigration files and public safety databases often move between agencies. Every copy is one more place it can leak from.
Ransomware gangs go after the services citizens depend on. State-sponsored groups want defense systems, policy data and diplomatic communications.
The openings are often ordinary: a misconfigured storage bucket, an exposed API, a subdomain nobody took down, legacy software that's hard to patch. Some attackers skip the network and spoof your domain instead, emailing citizens and staff with malware, disinformation or a way into internal systems.
What Cypho watches across your departments.
B / Attack Surface Management
Citizen-facing services
Web portals, citizen service platforms and government APIs, found from your domains and checked continuously for misconfigurations and unauthorized access.
B / Attack Surface Management
Forgotten assets
Subdomains, open ports, cloud services and external databases that outlived the project they were built for.
B / Attack Surface Management
Email authentication
SPF, DKIM and DMARC records on your domains, so a gap that lets someone send mail as you gets fixed.
C / Brand Protection
Leaked credentials and documents
Staff credentials and internal documents on dark web forums, paste sites and file-sharing services.
C / Brand Protection
Impersonation
Lookalike domains, fake sites and social accounts posing as your institution or its officials.
A / Threat Intelligence
Nation-state and ransomware groups
Profiles of the groups that target the public sector, with their tactics, linked CVEs and victims by country and sector.
A / Threat Intelligence
Older software
CVEs in the products you run, including legacy systems you add by hand, ranked by how likely they are to be exploited.
Visibility that holds across departments.
- Early leak alerts
- Leaked credentials, exposed documents and impersonation attempts are flagged early and ranked by risk.
- Public-facing assets in view
- Portals, citizen services and APIs across departments are discovered and monitored continuously.
- Strategic intelligence
- Nation-state tracking and long-term risk analysis inform security decisions at policy level.
What public-sector teams ask us.
How do you find assets we don't know about?
We start from your domains and find the subdomains, IPs, certificates and apps connected to them. Then we keep checking them for open ports, misconfigurations and exposed admin panels.
Do you track nation-state groups?
Yes. Threat actor profiles cover nation-state APTs, ransomware gangs, hacktivists and cybercriminals, with their tactics, linked CVEs and victim trends by country and sector.
Can you help with spoofed email?
We check SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your domains and flag weak settings. We also find lookalike domains that could be used to send phishing in your name.
Stories and research.
Customer stories
- Government Verified Brand Impersonation Detection: Protecting Public Trust in a Government Digital Presence A government organization used Cypho to detect verified brand impersonation, investigate unauthorized web content, and protect public trust.
- Government Strengthening External Infrastructure Visibility for Public Sector Digital Services A government organization used Cypho to improve visibility into external infrastructure signals, public references, and digital risk.
- Government Secret Exposure in Public Repositories: A Government Agency's Path to Rapid Containment A government agency used Cypho to identify exposed secrets in a public repository, rotate compromised credentials, and strengthen repository governance.
From the research team
Other industries.
- Financial servicesFinancial institutions get targeted because of the data they handle.
- Retail and eCommerceSkimmers go after the payment page and credential stuffers go after customer accounts.
- Oil, gas and energyOil and gas companies run SCADA networks and control systems that now connect back to IT, and ransomware groups have noticed.
- TelecomTelecom providers handle large volumes of data, and 5G keeps widening what's exposed.
- HealthcareHospitals, clinics and private practices hold sensitive records and run services patients can't go without.
Unknown threats are unstoppable. Until we expose them.
Send us your company domain. We'll walk you through what's already out there about you and how Cypho would handle it, with one of our analysts on the call.
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