INDUSTRY
Application and API Security for Government and Public Sector
Integrated Application and API Protection
Government agencies are racing through digital transformation, connecting applications with APIs faster than security teams can track—and the added complexity is where cybercriminals find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed data, especially as sensitive information crosses managed, unmanaged, and shadow APIs. Both the applications and their APIs become prime targets, making security a mission-critical discipline for public sector agencies, not a compliance checkbox.
The Security Reality for Government & Public Sector
Attacks on government systems rarely stay contained to the system they start in. What begins as one weak point in a public-facing application spreads through the teams that run it, defend it, and answer for it, all the way to the citizens who count on it working. The impacts below show how far that reach really goes.
Infrastructure
Government IT teams absorb the same volumetric punishment as any commercial target. Cyberattacks against public sector agencies have continued to increase, and a volumetricattack against a rate-limitless endpoint can send cloud costs soaring whileknocking a citizen portal offline. Worse yet, that outage tends to land exactlywhen service demand peaks.
Security
Security teams are stretched thin trying to separate legitimate constituent traffic from automated abuse, often without a full inventory of what's running. An unmanaged or shadow application or API sits outside any authorization the agency granted, so nearly a third of malicious transactions now target assets security teams didn't know existed.
Program Integrity
Program integrity teams fight a losing battle when fraudulent claims flow through applications and APIs built for speed, not scrutiny. Automated account takeover lets bad actors file benefit claims, tax refunds, and license renewals under stolen identities faster than investigators can flag the pattern, straining already thin fraud units.
Agency Leadership
Agency leadership makes budget and policy calls based on portal traffic and service-usage data that bot noise can quietly distort. As regulatory pressure on application and API security intensifies and abuse of both is projected to double, leaders who can't tell real constituent demand from automated noise risk funding the wrong priorities and drawing regulator scrutiny.
Citizens
Citizens carry the final cost when a government application or API fails. Credential stuffing against a benefits or tax portal can drain an account or file a fraudulent claim in someone else's name, and the identity theft that follows can take months to unwind. Worse yet, the citizen, not the agency, is usually the one left proving they didn't do it.
Cequence Secures Applications and APIs for Government and Public Sector
Cequence Security believes in taking a holistic approach to defending against data risk with a market-defining solution that goes beyond traditional security approaches that may focus solely on one aspect of the API and AI protection journey.
Cequence solutions include:
- API Security for API security posture management, testing, and remediation
- Bot Management for advanced bot protection, mitigation, and fraud prevention
- WAAP for integrated bot management, API security, WAF, and DDoS protection
- AI Gateway for secure agentic AI enablement
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