e2e-assure partners with Validato on public sector cybersecurity

Managed Threat Detection & Response provider, e2e-assure, has partnered with threat informed defence platform, Validato, to help public sector organisations strengthen their cyber resilience.

Public sector organisations make up 30 percent of e2e-assure’s customer base. The new partnership will enable organisations to test, validate, and optimise their current security controls’ effectiveness and detection capabilities.

According to e2e-assure’s own Cyber Resilience 2025: Futureproofing AI Adoption report, 73 percent of cyber risk owners, including 76 percent in healthcare, think that most cyberattacks come through a lack of employee diligence.

Additionally, 86 percent in healthcare also say they’ve worked at an organisation that has experienced a cyberattack, which is up from 77 percent last year.  The research found that there is a lack of engagement of healthcare sector employees with training provided. More than half (52 percent) of workers said they are only ‘somewhat engaged’ and over a quarter (28 percent) are ‘not engaged’ at all.

Visibility into defence capabilities

Leveraging Validato’s MITRE ATT&CK framework to simulate real-world cyber threats, e2e-assure will provide public sector organisations with visibility into their current defence capabilities and support staff education. Public sector decision makers will also be able to access a clear roadmap to patch vulnerabilities and strengthen their cyber posture, said the company.

 An approach e2e-assure is calling ‘Breach Disruption Validation’, will also expose vulnerabilities such as misconfiguration and over-privileged users, before attackers can exploit them.

“Across the public sector…compliancy and regulations are essential. For example, GovAssure and the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provide key guidance and regulatory standards for local and central government,” said Mike Upton, sales director and public sector specialist, at e2e-assure.

“Our partnership with Validato will not only better support compliance with these regulatory requirements for customers but will also allow the wider public sector to continue to drive long term proactive cyber resilience.” 

“Traditionally security testing has been very ‘point in time’, through processes such as penetration testing. The threat landscape however is changing every day, and there is a real requirement to have a more regular and continuous view on how a company’s security posture is validated against the current landscape,” added Validato CEO, Ronan Lavelle.

 “We’re pleased to form this partnership with e2e-assure, a company which shares our core values regarding the importance of taking a preventative approach to cybersecurity, tuning and hardening an environment, to block threat actors prior to access.”