Public Sector
Public sector organizations operate in complex, high-stakes environments where security, resilience, and public trust are essential to mission success. From protecting people and facilities to ensuring continuity of critical services, government agencies must manage evolving physical, cyber, and operational risks while navigating regulatory requirements, budget constraints, and diverse stakeholder expectations.
Led by seasoned professionals, COSECURE partners with federal, state, and local agencies—including K-12 schools, higher education, healthcare systems, utilities, transportation, and social service organizations—to identify security risks, develop mitigation strategies, and strengthen overall security posture through collaboration and practical implementation.
State and local governments are under increasing pressure to address evolving physical and cyber threats, protect critical infrastructure, modernize and integrate technology, operate within tight budgets, coordinate across jurisdictions, close workforce gaps, and maintain public trust—all while continuing to deliver essential services.
Risk Assessment & Threat Prioritization: State and local governments face an expanding set of natural, human, and technological threats—while limited resources require disciplined prioritization. COSECURE helps agencies identify and assess risk across cyber, physical, operational, and environmental domains to clarify what matters most. This approach enables agencies to focus scarce funding on the highest-impact risks, support budget and policy decisions with data-driven analysis, and shift from reactive security investments to proactive, risk-informed management.
Business Impact Analysis & Continuity Planning: When essential services are disrupted, communities feel the impact immediately. COSECURE works with agencies to identify mission-critical functions, dependencies, and service thresholds, translating that analysis into practical continuity and recovery planning. These efforts help agencies maintain delivery of essential services during disruptions, establish clear Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives that leadership understands, and align continuity planning with real operational and staffing realities.
Testing, Exercises & Preparedness: Plans that are never tested often fail when they are needed most. COSECURE designs and facilitates exercises that validate assumptions, surface gaps, and strengthen coordination across departments and partners. Partnering with COSECURE builds leadership confidence and decision-making capability, identifies weaknesses before an incident occurs, and strengthens cross-agency coordination without disrupting daily operations.
Crisis Management Training & Advisory: During a crisis, leaders must make high-stakes decisions quickly, often with incomplete information. COSECURE prepares executives and senior staff to lead decisively through structured training, advisory support, and crisis communications planning. This support improves leadership performance under stress, reduces confusion and role ambiguity during incidents, and protects public trust through clear, coordinated response and communication.
Integrated Security & Resilience Strategy: Public sector security efforts are often fragmented across departments, funding streams, and priorities. COSECURE helps agencies develop integrated security and resilience strategies that align physical security, cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and continuity planning into a single, coherent framework. This approach reduces duplication and siloed spending, creates a shared roadmap across departments, and supports long-term planning even amid leadership turnover.
Interagency & Cross-Jurisdiction Coordination Support: Threats do not respect jurisdictional boundaries. COSECURE helps agencies design coordination models, information-sharing processes, and joint preparedness efforts across agencies and jurisdictions. These efforts improve response to regional or cascading incidents, strengthen partnerships without adding bureaucracy, and support SLTT collaboration with federal and private-sector partners.
Technology Enablement & Security Integration Advisory: State and local governments face increasing pressure to modernize technology while managing cyber risk and operational complexity. COSECURE supports agencies in aligning technology investments with security and resilience goals—helping leaders ask the right questions before procuring tools or platforms. This guidance helps agencies avoid costly, disconnected technology purchases, ensure new systems integrate with existing operations, and bridge the gap between IT, security, and operational leadership.
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Email Don Hough, our Vice President – Public Sector, at DHough@cosecure.com