PAM for government — sovereign by deployment, auditable by design.
Public-sector privileged access carries a unique set of constraints: data sovereignty mandates, procurement frameworks that move on multi-year cycles, and audit expectations from inspectors general who treat "we will get back to you" as a finding. DataDike was built for environments where the customer owns the hardware, the data, and the operational keys — with no cloud control-plane dependency and a deployment model designed for closed networks.
Air-gap
Native deployment, no internet required
NIST 800-53
Control mapping included
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Cloud control-plane dependencies
FIPS 140-2
Validated crypto modules
Why PAM matters here
Sovereignty is not a feature, it is the requirement
Government and public-sector privileged access carries political weight. Citizen data, defense systems, judicial records, and tax infrastructure are not workloads that can sit behind a foreign vendor's SaaS control plane — regardless of certifications. DataDike's on-premises, customer-hosted architecture is the design that survives that requirement. The appliance runs in your datacenter, on hardware you procured, with cryptographic material you control. No telemetry leaves the boundary unless you configure it to.
The audit and oversight cycle is continuous
Inspectors general, tribunais de contas, court-of-audit equivalents, and parliamentary oversight bodies all consume privileged-access evidence on a recurring basis. The cost of "we cannot produce that report today" is measured in weeks of remediation work and political exposure. DataDike's pre-mapped audit dashboards (NIST 800-53, ENS in Spain, LGPD setor público in Brazil, NIS2 across EU member states) generate the evidence on demand, not retroactively.
How DataDike maps to the work
NIST 800-53 control mapping
Pre-mapped reports for the access-control (AC), audit-and-accountability (AU), identification-and-authentication (IA), and system-and-information-integrity (SI) control families. Auditor walkthrough format aligned with FedRAMP-style assessment patterns.
Air-gap deployment with no internet dependency
Customer-hosted appliance, signed updates delivered out-of-band, no telemetry leaving the boundary. Required for classified networks, judicial systems, and OT estates operated by public utilities.
FIPS 140-2 validated crypto modules
All cryptographic operations run in FIPS-validated modules. Required by US federal procurement (FIPS 200) and a frequent requirement in Brazilian ITI and Mexican Secretaría de Función Pública procurement.
Tax and treasury systems
Native session proxy for the database engines that back tax and treasury platforms (Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DB2), with SQL-level command audit for sensitive operations. Session recording for any administrator touching production tax data.
Judicial and case-management systems
Audit segregation for judicial systems where access to specific case data must be tracked independently of system-administrator access. Separate audit streams, separate retention policies, separate review workflows.
Vendor-neutral procurement posture
Open protocols, standard export formats, no proprietary agents on targets. Designed to satisfy procurement frameworks that explicitly require avoidance of vendor lock-in.
Regulatory frameworks covered
NIST 800-53
US federal security controls
FedRAMP
US federal cloud (where applicable)
FIPS 140-2
US cryptography validation
ENS (Spain)
Esquema Nacional de Seguridad
LGPD Setor Público
Brazilian public-sector data law
EU NIS2
Critical infrastructure directive
ISO 27001
Information security management
TC União Acórdão 1729/22
Brazilian TCU PAM guidance
Customer evidence
Global manufacturing group locks down 3rd-party OT access — without breaking maintenance windows
A Fortune 500 manufacturer with 40+ production plants replaced ad-hoc vendor VPN access with DataDike-mediated, recorded, time-bounded sessions. Vendor footprint cut, audit clean.
Read case studyA conversation framed by your procurement and your sovereignty model.
Public-sector engagements have their own cadence and constraints. We will walk through your acquisition framework, your sovereignty requirements, and your audit cycle — and tell you whether DataDike is the right fit before either side commits a quarter.
Book the review30-minute review. No deck. Honest fit assessment.