Security · Building Government Platforms
Securing Government Digital Platforms
Practical controls for identity, auditability, and data residency in public-sector software.
2Logics Engineering4 min readPublished 2 April 2026Updated 20 April 2026IntermediateSecurity · Programme leads
Identity before features
Citizen and staff journeys collapse without clear identity boundaries. Prefer federation where institutions already have an IdP, and keep role separation explicit in the domain—not only in the UI.
Immutable audit as a product requirement
Public-sector software is judged on accountability. Every approval, override, and data export should produce an audit event that survives deployment and staff turnover.
If you cannot reconstruct who changed what and why, you do not have a government platform.
Data residency without theatre
Residency is an architecture decision: where case state lives, where backups live, and which subprocessors touch PII. Document it in the decision record and test restore paths—not only storage region checkboxes.