With the ever increasing awareness of the criticality of Information Security to e-Government initiatives, government agencies at all levels are working to certify that the systems they are deploying are reasonably secure given the information they house and their value to the organization, its employees, and constituents.

Pivot Point Security has expertise in helping governmental agencies mitigate their most significant information security risks including:

• Unauthorized access to confidential constituent data

• The roll-out of public facing e-Gov initiatives that house / traffic personally identifiable information (e.g., human services)

• The roll-out of public facing e-Gov initiatives that accept credit and debit cards. (e.g., legal document processing, taxis, parking meters)

• The roll-out of public facing "high-integrity" requirement systems (e.g., public records, e-voting)

• Challenges inherent in secure data sharing across a multitude of state, federal, county, Homeland security, and city law enforcement agencies.

• Challenges inherent in maintaining data segregation / confidentiality (e.g., student, municipal, public safety) when leveraging shared computing services at the core (e.g., authentication, application hosting, core network)

Our clients include:

Counties Cities Townships

School Boards States Quasi Governmental entities

Pivot Point also has expertise in FISMA and NIST standards, most notably NIST Special Publication 800-37 regarding the Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information Systems. Pivot Point Security has increasingly been called on by various governmental entities to conduct certifications of critical systems leveraging this well regarded NIST standard.

For more information, we encourage you to visit the NIST Special Publications Web-site, and also to be sure to download a copy of our Case Study on our work with a major US City government agency.

Contact your Pivot Point representative today to discuss how PPS can help you safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your constituent's and public sector employee's sensitive information.