The way public sector organisations protect themselves has had to change over the past few years. Developments such as hybrid working and the move to cloud to enable productive work from anywhere, now means the protection on-premise firewalls provided organisations is no longer enough.

As a result, the shift to cloud computing has significantly widened public organisation’s attack surface, incentivising cybercriminals to prioritise them as targets. That’s why protecting the public sector in the age of cloud requires new tools and approaches.

In this report, we deep-dive into how threat actors infiltrate public sector organisations, delving into each step of the process and the gaps criminals exploit to gain a foothold in your network to either conduct extortion techniques or extract data.

We also explore the many benefits of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), explaining how it works and breaking down exactly how it provides organisations with a dynamic way of remaining protected.

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Extortion groups take advantage of these attack surface exposures and are growing ever more sophisticated and dangerous each passing year. They use a variety of techniques and approaches to compromise public sector organisations, either to extort money, steal data or both.

And these groups vary from small criminal gangs looking for a quick payout to complex networks of hackers conducting espionage plots on behalf of nationstates.

In this report, we look to uncover the murky world of extortion groups, explain how they operate, the different approaches they use to infiltrate organisation and what decision makers should expect in the year ahead.

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