Closing Cyber Risk Where Public Services and Trust Are Fragile
For municipal and local government agencies, cyber risk directly affects public safety and trust. A single exploitable weakness can disrupt essential services such as utilities, emergency response coordination, permitting, tax collection, or public records access. Unlike large federal agencies with dedicated security divisions, cities, counties, and municipal departments operate with limited budgets, small IT teams, and infrastructure that must remain available to the public at all times.
Attackers understand this imbalance. They target small and mid-sized government agencies because public services create high-pressure leverage, while staffing and budget constraints limit defensive capacity.
Where Traditional Security Falls Short in Local Government
Most municipal agencies are not short on compliance obligations. They are short on clarity and capacity.
Scanners, audits, and periodic penetration tests generate long lists of issues across applications, infrastructure, and vendor-managed systems. What they rarely provide is insight aligned with public-sector realities:
- Can this weakness be exploited to disrupt citizen services or access sensitive records?
- Does it enable ransomware deployment or manipulation of public systems?
- What should be fixed first without interrupting critical operations?
- Did the remediation work—and will it still work after system updates or vendor changes?
Scapien's Approach: Exploit-Validated Risk for Local Government Operations
Scapien is built to operate within the constraints of understaffed government environments.
Rather than reporting theoretical exposure, Scapien uses human-led adversary testing to prove which weaknesses represent real attacker paths in municipal contexts—across citizen-facing services, internal systems, and third-party integrations. Only issues that are demonstrably exploitable are elevated as risk.
Preventing Regression as Government Systems Change
Local government environments change continuously. Vendors rotate, systems are upgraded, policies evolve, and new digital services are introduced—often without corresponding security capacity.
Scapien addresses this through its iPAS platform. Once an exploit path is remediated, it is codified into a safe, reusable Exploit Replay. These replays are executed on an approved cadence wherever the same conditions exist, continuously verifying that fixes remain effective.
Built for the Reality of Local Government
Scapien does not replace existing tools, IT staff, or public-sector workflows. It removes ambiguity.
By proving exploitability, prioritising risk by real-world impact, delivering prescriptive remediation, and continuously verifying closure, Scapien helps local government agencies reduce real exposure without disrupting public services or exceeding resource constraints.
In local government, resilience underpins public trust. Scapien is built to protect it.