Local government agencies hold some of the most critical data in America—voter records, property information, financial systems, utilities management, citizen services. A ransomware attack doesn't just cost money; it disrupts services that communities depend on. Yet municipalities face immense pressure to do more with less, operating with IT budgets that haven't kept pace with rising cybersecurity threats.
Many local governments are trapped between two equally bad options: expensive enterprise solutions designed for large corporations, or unsupported DIY tools that create more risk than they prevent. At Scinary, we've built comprehensive cybersecurity for local government. We provide enterprise-grade threat detection and response paired with dedicated human support, designed for government budgets and compliance requirements. You get the security your community needs without the vendor lock-in or hidden costs.
Cities and counties can't afford downtime. When systems go down, citizens can't pay utilities, permits get delayed, emergency services are impacted, and taxpayer trust erodes. Scinary's Local Government Cybersecurity Package eliminates the common trap: you won't be managing security yourself through slow ticketing systems or low-priority support queues. Instead, you have dedicated experts monitoring your network 24/7, responding to threats in real time, and supporting your team with expertise.
We understand municipal compliance requirements—NIST 800-53, records retention, financial reporting standards. We know that your IT team is often small and pulled in dozens of directions. And we recognize that transparency and accountability matter in government. With Scinary, you're not paying for bloated features you'll never use or getting locked into expensive long-term contracts with surprise costs. You're gaining a CJIS-certified security partner who speaks government language and prioritizes your community's protection.
Before protection can begin, we need to understand your environment. Scinary conducts a thorough security assessment of your current infrastructure—identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your administrative systems, citizen-facing applications, utilities management, financial systems, and network architecture. We examine your servers, directory services, firewall policies, and third-party integrations, then deliver a clear remediation roadmap aligned with NIST 800-53 standards.
This assessment helps our team become deeply familiar with your unique environment, enabling more effective ongoing monitoring and faster incident response if threats emerge.
Centurion monitors all internal network traffic across your municipality 24/7, detecting malicious activity in real time. When threats are detected—whether ransomware reconnaissance, data exfiltration attempts, or unauthorized access—your IT team and Scinary's Security Operations Center (SOC) are immediately alerted. This managed detection and response system catches threats before they can disrupt services or compromise citizen data.
Endpoint Detection and Response provides visibility into every workstation, server, and critical system in your infrastructure. When threats are detected on endpoints, our SOC can isolate systems from the network and terminate malicious processes, stopping incidents before they spread. By combining EDR monitoring with Centurion data, we identify sophisticated attacks and lateral movement that single-layer solutions miss.
For municipalities with critical infrastructure or sensitive financial systems, EDR can be scaled to focus protection on the most mission-critical assets.
Multi-factor authentication is essential for protecting administrative accounts, citizen data systems, financial applications, and remote access. Scinary deploys and manages centralized MFA across your environment—including legacy systems and applications that don't natively support MFA. Our team monitors MFA activity for suspicious patterns, alerting your team to potential unauthorized access attempts immediately.
Government networks constantly evolve—new applications, policy changes, emerging threats. Scinary conducts monthly vulnerability scans across your infrastructure to identify weaknesses before attackers exploit them. We deliver detailed reports that explain findings in plain language, provide remediation steps, and help your team prioritize fixes based on actual risk and compliance impact.
Despite strong prevention, incidents can still occur. Your package includes 40 hours of Scinary's incident response services at reduced cost. When an incident happens, you have expert support immediately—forensic analysis, containment, evidence preservation, and guidance on recovery. You're working with experienced responders who understand municipal operations and regulatory requirements, not waiting in a support queue.
These services aren’t included in our standard package, but can be added based on client needs.
Centralized oversight of municipal networks. Monitor all internal traffic and gain actionable insights to keep citizen data secure.
Local governments need cybersecurity that understands municipal operations—not enterprise software built for corporations. Scinary provides cybersecurity for local government: 24/7 monitoring by human experts, transparent reporting, clear pricing with no surprise costs, and support from people who actually answer the phone.
Your community's data, your citizens' trust, and your critical services deserve protection from a team that understands what you're protecting.
While Centurian and Scinary can’t ingest the logs from your firewall at this time, we do review firewall rules annually to ensure the security of your network.
Scinary does not currently offer a managed firewall solution. However, we are always incorporating client feedback and expanding our services accordingly.
While what others provide can be better than nothing, Scinary offers a greater level of visibility and capability than those others. Additionally, where Scinary stands apart is in cost effectiveness and unmatched service to clients.
Scinary will respond to cybersecurity incidents 24/7/365. Initial response will be through a call or screen share, however, if that is insufficient, we will deploy Scinary team members to work on-site within 72 hours of contact.