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Security Assurance for Digital Public Infrastructure
Digital Public Infrastructure concentrates identity, consent and data exchange for very large populations. Security assurance has to address architecture, identity and API surface together, because that is where population-scale impact originates.
The problem
What departments are dealing with
- Population-scale identity and consent flows create high-value, high-consequence attack surface.
- Open API ecosystems admit many consuming entities with varying security maturity.
- Data exchange between departments and private participants requires enforceable purpose limitation.
- Availability expectations leave narrow windows for corrective change.
Outcomes
What the engagement produces
- A documented security view of the platform's architecture, identity and API surface
- Prioritised, feasible control improvements with validated remediation
- Participant onboarding and periodic assurance standards
- Incident readiness proportionate to national-scale service impact
Capability areas
Scope of work
API security assurance
API inventory, contract review, authorisation testing and rate-control verification across published interfaces.Identity & access management
Authentication design, federation, session handling and entitlement model review.Privileged access
Administrative path discovery, standing-access reduction and privileged session control design.Data protection
Classification, minimisation, encryption in transit and at rest, tokenisation and retention control.Secure architecture review
Trust boundaries, segmentation, exposure surface and failure behaviour of the platform.Resilience & continuity
Degradation modes, recovery objectives and tested restoration for essential flows.Monitoring & detection
Log coverage, detection use cases and alert ownership for platform-level abuse patterns.Application assurance
Assessment of the platform applications, portals and participant-facing consoles.Incident readiness
Response structure, evidence preservation and communication protocols before an incident occurs.Governance
Participant onboarding standards, security obligations and periodic review.Vendor & participant risk
Security qualification and periodic reassessment of consuming entities and suppliers.
Approach
How the work is sequenced
- 01
Architecture and data-flow review
Map participants, interfaces, identity flows, data categories and trust boundaries.
- 02
Threat and abuse modelling
Population-scale abuse cases, insider paths and participant-compromise scenarios.
- 03
Technical assessment
API, identity, application, cloud and configuration testing under authorisation.
- 04
Control design
Prioritised control and architecture recommendations with operational feasibility.
- 05
Validation and sustainment
Retest, evidence pack and a recurring assurance cycle for the platform.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Procurement integrity note
Access to qualified and credentialed specialist delivery resources is provided through Bezer's delivery partner network. Where an assignment requires CERT-In empanelled audit capability, that capability can be mobilised through appropriately empanelled delivery partners, subject to the requirements of the specific engagement.
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