Soffid solutions for government and public administration:
Security and identity management
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Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Centralised identity management in complex environments
Challenge:
Public administrations manage thousands of profiles with different access levels and disconnected systems.
Soffid Solutions:
Consolidates identity management into a single platform with granular control, source synchronisation, and automatic permission assignment based on roles and functions
Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Automated Onboarding, Offboarding, and Role Changes
Challenge:
High turnover and internal mobility make it difficult to keep access permissions up to date.
Soffid Solutions:
Automates onboarding, offboarding, and relocation with customizable workflows and periodic recertification, ensuring no one has more access than necessary.
Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Privileged and third-party access control
Challenge:
External vendors require access to sensitive systems, increasing the risk of leaks.
Soffid Solutions:
PAM (Privileged Access Management) enables just-in-time permissions, recorded sessions, automatic rotation of credentials and full access traceability of access.
Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Security in mixed infrastructures and legacy systems
Challenge:
Governments operate with cloud applications, on-site systems, and legacy software.
Soffid Solution:
Provides native support for hybrid environments, allowing everything to be integrated on a single dashboard with federated authentication, SSO and common policies.
Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Regulatory compliance guaranteed from the outset
Challenge:
Complying with ENS, RGPD and other regulations requires traceability, control and constant updates.
Soffid Solution:
With ENS ALTO and Common Criteria EAL2+ certifications, automated audits, continuous monitoring, and configurable access policies by type of entity.
Security challenges in the public sector and how Soffid deals with them
The biggest challenge for any government is to prevent the loss of sensitive data through security breaches. The sheer volume of profiles and systems, coupled with frequent staff turnover and privileged vendor access, makes this task a challenging one. Soffid helps identify and manage these risks, automating processes such as account deactivation, enabling self-service permissions management, and ensuring compliance with current security standards.
Secure and adaptable authentication for each type of user
Challenge
Governments operate with cloud applications, on-premises systems, and legacy software.
Soffid Solution:
Incorporates multi-factor authentication (MFA), based on risk and tailored by context (role, location, device), strengthening each access point.
Soffid's key benefits for the Government sector
Comprehensive security covering everything from operating systems to applications.
The flexibility to provide single sign-on access across multiple platforms.
A self-service portal for password recovery and permissions management.
Secure self-registration for citizens with customised authentication levels.
Just-in-time permissions and a timely rotation of service accounts.
A practical guide to secure management in the public sector
Download our guide and learn about the best practices for protecting data and managing access in government agencies.
SOFFID Solutions
From secure access to intelligent identity analysis, Soffid provides a unified platform for every business challenge. Discover the solutions that can transform your cybersecurity and operational efficiency.
AM
Access Management
Control who can access, when, and how.
Soffid centralises access to all your resources with robust authentication and a seamless user experience.
IGA
Identity Governance Administration
Automate your user lifecycle, assign roles and re-certify with full traceability. Comply with regulations and remain in control.
IRC
Identity Risk & Compliance
Assess, monitor, and respond to identity-related threats. Fully aligned with GDPR, NIST and ISO for effective governance.
PAM
Privileged Access Management
Manage and protect the most critical access points with just-in-time permissions, audited sessions, and full privilege control.
PM
Password manager
Generate, store, and synchronise credentials securely and transparently.
Identity Analytics
Turn your identity data into decisions. Detect anomalies, improve governance, and anticipate risks with advanced analytics.
ITDR
Identity Threat Detection and Response
Detect and respond proactively to threats in real time. Reduce security risks through advanced monitoring and preventive actions.
SSE
Business Subscription Services
Specialised consulting for the successful implementation of customised solutions, optimising identity and access management in your company.
SCI
Consultancy and Implementation Services
Specialised consulting for the successful implementation of customised solutions, optimising identity and access management in your company.
ENS HIGH Level
(National Security Scheme)
Awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, this certification guarantees that Soffid will protect digital assets with robust, effective, and auditable safeguards.
This recognition is particularly valued in the public sector.
Common Criteria EAL2 + ALC CCL
The most demanding international standard for IT security products. Soffid obtained this certification in its identity management category, thus validating the robustness of its technical architecture, secure development and operational reliability.
Valid in more than 30 countries (CCRA).
Our certifications
Soffid solutions for other key industries
Discover how Soffid tailors its solutions to protect and manage identity and access in a wide range of industries, with an emphasis on your individual needs.
Soffid's Success Stories
Discover how companies from a wide range of industries have successfully transformed their security and identity management with Soffid solutions. Check out the success stories that illustrate how we can help you achieve your goals.
FAQs about Soffid in the Government sector
How does Soffid ensure the privacy of government data?
Through strict access controls, continuous auditing and compliance with security certifications such as ENS and Common Criteria EAL2, aligned with regulations such as RGPD and HIPAA.
What levels of authentication can public entities implement?
Soffid offers multi-factor authentication and self-registration processes with customised security levels by role.
How do you manage privileged access to critical systems?
Through just-in-time permissions and account rotation to ensure that only authorised users access sensitive systems.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do we run an IAM/IGA procurement process within public-sector rules (lowest-bid requirements, anti-vendor-lock-in policy, data residency mandates) without ending up with a weaker tool than the private sector uses?
Public-sector procurement rules around interoperability and anti-lock-in tend to favor open standards and platforms that can be self-hosted or run on sovereign infrastructure rather than closed SaaS-only offerings — which actually aligns well with solutions built on open standards and available for on-premise or hybrid deployment. The practical approach is scoring vendors on standards compliance (SCIM, SAML/OIDC), deployment flexibility, and exit or data-portability terms as explicit criteria, so lowest-bid rules don't default you into the least interoperable option on the shortlist.
We need to serve both citizens (public-facing services) and employees — should these run on the same identity platform or stay completely separate?
These populations have different lifecycle rules, privacy obligations, and scale profiles, so they're usually best run on the same underlying identity governance platform but as logically separate identity domains — shared infrastructure and policy engine, distinct data handling, consent models, and access rules per population. Running them on entirely separate platforms multiplies operational overhead and makes it harder to apply consistent security policy, while forcing them into one undifferentiated pool ignores the very different privacy and volume requirements citizen identities carry compared to employee identities.
Several of our critical legacy systems have no modernization plan at all — how do we bolt on modern access governance without touching the core application?
When a core application has no near-term replacement path, governance has to wrap around it rather than be built into it — using connectors that read and manage the system's existing account and entitlement model, bringing it into the same certification and audit cycle as modern applications without requiring code changes to the legacy system itself. This is the same pattern used for mainframe and other agency legacy stacks elsewhere: governance as an external layer, not a rewrite, is what makes it possible to close the compliance gap now rather than waiting on a modernization project that may never get funded.
Cloud-based identity platforms raise data residency and national security concerns for us — what on-prem or hybrid deployment options actually satisfy those mandates?
Cloud-only identity platforms are a legitimate non-starter for many government requirements, which is why on-premise and hybrid deployment models matter for this sector specifically — running the identity platform inside agency-controlled infrastructure keeps identity data under national jurisdiction while still providing the governance and access management functionality a pure legacy approach lacks. Soffid, for example, supports on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployment specifically because European public-sector and data-sovereignty requirements rule out SaaS-only vendors for a meaningful share of agencies.
How incremental can a legacy identity modernization really be — can we replace access controls system-by-system rather than in one large "big bang" project?
Yes, and it's the recommended approach for government specifically — rather than a single cutover, agencies typically bring systems under governance one at a time, starting with the highest-risk or most-audited applications, while legacy access controls for not-yet-migrated systems keep running unchanged in parallel. This lets an agency show measurable compliance progress on a rolling basis and keeps continuous operations intact, which matters more in government than in most private-sector contexts given uptime and public-service continuity obligations.
How do we manage access for the many contractors and external agencies that interact with our systems, on top of our own employees?
Contractor and inter-agency access should be modeled as its own governed population with time-bound assignments tied to the contract or engagement period, distinct approval workflows, and its own certification cycle — rather than provisioned as informal employee-equivalent accounts that outlive the underlying contract. One governance model can reasonably cover employees, contractors, and inter-agency users at the policy and platform level, but the access rules, ownership, and expiration logic need to differ by population, not be uniform across all three.
What compliance mandates (beyond the obvious ones like FedRAMP) actually shape how we should design employee and citizen access controls?
Beyond FedRAMP, agencies typically also have to account for agency-specific security directives, national-level frameworks — in Europe, national security schemes tied to certifications like Common Criteria, or ENS-style catalogs such as Spain's CCN-STIC — records-retention and audit-trail rules, and older internal policies that predate any of the newer frameworks but remain technically in force. Designing access controls that satisfy the newest headline framework without checking these older, narrower mandates is a common gap; the practical approach is treating compliance as a layered set of requirements to reconcile, not a single checklist to satisfy.