Microsoft solutions for Government & Public Sector
Public accountability, tight budgets, and security that has to be demonstrable.
What this sector is dealing with
Public sector organisations carry citizen data, publish what they spend, and answer to frameworks that leave little room for interpretation. At the same time budgets are fixed, legacy is deep, and modernisation has to survive a change of leadership.
We help government bodies, councils, and agencies get more out of the Microsoft licensing they already hold, secure it to a standard they can evidence, and modernise in stages that deliver value inside a budget cycle.
The problems we get called in for
Framework compliance
Controls must map to a named framework, and the mapping has to be maintainable rather than a one-off exercise.
Citizen data protection
Freedom of information, retention, and subject access all depend on knowing where data is and who touched it.
Budget scrutiny
Every licence and every project has to be justified, which makes overbought E5 an audit finding rather than a nice-to-have.
Deep legacy estates
On-premise Active Directory, file servers, and line-of-business systems that predate the cloud strategy.
What Microsoft brings to government & public sector
The products that genuinely apply to this sector, and what each one is actually for here. Much of this sits inside licensing you may already hold.
Microsoft Entra ID
Conditional Access, multifactor authentication, and Privileged Identity Management to bring privileged access under control. Entitlement management and access reviews handle the joiners, movers, and leavers process that framework auditors always test.
Microsoft Purview
Classification, retention, and records management for citizen data, with eDiscovery and audit supporting information requests and investigations rather than fire drills.
Microsoft Sentinel
Centralised detection and long retention, which is usually the practical way to meet monitoring and reporting requirements without standing up a separate platform.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Endpoint, email, identity, and cloud app protection under one licence family you very likely already own inside your Microsoft 365 agreement.
Microsoft Azure
Landing zones with Azure Policy guardrails and regional data residency configured deliberately, so new services are compliant by construction. Cost management makes spend defensible line by line.
Microsoft Power Platform
Citizen-facing and internal service apps built on licensing you already hold, governed with environment strategy and DLP so a useful app does not become shadow IT.
Typical engagements in this sector
The projects we are most often brought in to deliver for government & public sector, from full implementations to targeted uplifts.
Licensing and subscription optimisation
We map what your agreement already includes against what is deployed, which usually finds security capability you are paying for and not using.
Active Directory exit to Entra ID
A staged path from on-premise Active Directory to cloud identity, with the legacy dependencies handled rather than ignored.
Sentinel monitoring and long retention
Centralised detection and the retention that meets your monitoring and reporting duties without a separate platform.
Power Platform service application
A citizen-facing or internal service app built on licensing you already hold, governed with environment strategy and DLP.
Frameworks that shape the work
These are the frameworks and regulations we most often design against in government & public sector. We map Microsoft controls to the framework you are actually held to, and build the evidence trail as we go rather than reconstructing it the week before an audit.
ISO 27001
The information security management standard most enterprise buyers and auditors ask for by name. It wants a system, not a set of tools.
NIST CSF
A framework for organising security around identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. Useful as the spine that other frameworks hang off.
Cyber Essentials Plus
A UK baseline that is independently tested, and increasingly a condition of winning public sector and enterprise contracts.
GDPR and UK GDPR
Lawful handling of personal data, with real duties around retention, subject access, and breach notification timelines.
NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework
The UK assessment framework for essential services, focused on outcomes rather than a control checklist.
FedRAMP
The US authorisation standard for cloud services used by federal agencies, with continuous monitoring built in.
CJIS
US security policy for criminal justice information, with strict rules on access, encryption, and personnel screening.
Where to go next
The solutions we most often deliver for this sector.
Microsoft Licensing
Buy Microsoft the right way, with advice on what you actually need before you renew.
Explore Microsoft LicensingCompliance & ISO
Microsoft controls mapped to the framework you are held to, with the evidence built as we go.
Explore Compliance & ISOActive Directory Exit
A staged path off on-premise Active Directory, with the legacy dependencies handled.
Explore Active Directory ExitMicrosoft Sentinel
Cloud native SIEM with tuned analytics, automation, and a SOC your team can operate.
Explore Microsoft SentinelWe work across sectors
Working in government & public sector? Let us look at your estate.
Book a discovery call and we will walk through what you already own, what is switched on, and where the gaps are that matter in your sector.