Information technology is now an integral component of local government operations. In recent years, IT infrastructures have evolved from purely internal networks to systems geared towards the outside world. Mobile employees must be able to connect to the IT system wherever they are. External providers have to access specific resources. The general public has to be able to exchange information with their administrative authorities through the Internet.

Because they are entrusted with managing highly confidential data, local governments can not compromise security. They must grant access to IT resources to authorized people while ensuring confidential data does not leak or is not tampered with. Fraud and theft, malicious hackers, employee sabotage, malicious code and threats to personal privacy are as many dangers local government must thwart.

But many challenges face CISOs:

• Local governments often rely on highly heterogeneous infrastructures. Diverse hardware and software pieces can not be kept up to date easily, offering many potential security flaws. This makes it more difficult to effectively implement security policies.
• Traditional security technology only offers access control based on machine identity, which can not help identify and differentiate users.
• Regulation demands to establish individual accountability, while usual tools only track packets over the network.

EdenWall Technologies answers the specific security needs of local governments:

• EdenWall helps reduce filtering rules from several thousand rules to a dozen. Whatever the complexity of your architecture, you can easily set up and audit your security policy implementation.
• EdenWall offers full logical access controls: rules designate who or what can access a specific system resource and the type of transactions and functions they can perform.
• EdenWall's comprehensive audit trails offer detailed, customizable reports about user activity, should computer forensic be needed.