Protecting Public Data With Sovereign Security And Compliance.
PastWipe supports governments with tools to secure citizen data, ensure regulatory compliance, and build public trust through transparent, sovereign digital protection.
Protecting Public Data With Sovereign Security And Compliance.
PastWipe supports governments with tools to secure citizen data, ensure regulatory compliance, and build public trust through transparent, sovereign digital protection.
The Public-Sector Mandate: Protect Citizens, Prove Compliance, Preserve Sovereignty
Why urgency now. Government data is the most targeted and the least replaceable. Compromises ripple across critical services (benefits, health, justice, identity, tax), escalate into diplomatic incidents, and trigger high-stakes regulatory exposure. Ransomware and data brokerage markets thrive on exfiltrated public records; once data leaves the perimeter, traditional controls struggle to stop its reuse. The new mandate is not just prevention—it’s post-exfiltration control and provable compliance.
Sovereign security defined. Sovereign security means your government, not a vendor or a foreign jurisdiction, retains ultimate control of sensitive data—where it lives, how it’s used, when it must be erased, and how you prove those obligations were met. That requires enforceable policy attached to the data itself, jurisdiction-anchored key custody, and evidence you can show to auditors, courts, and citizens.
Regulatory reality (a few touchstones):
EU: GDPR, NIS2, and eIDAS/eIDAS 2 for trust services and cross-border identity.
US: NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, CJIS Security Policy for law-enforcement data, and HIPAA in public health programs.
Global: ISO/IEC 27001 for ISMS, OECD privacy guidelines, national privacy laws (e.g., UK DPA 2018, Brazil LGPD, South Africa POPIA, India DPDP Act, Australia Privacy Act, Singapore PDPA).
Trust is measurable. Citizens and oversight bodies expect more than promises—they expect evidence: What exactly leaked? How was it neutralized? Who accessed what, when, and under what lawful basis? PastWipe is designed to turn these into signed, time-stamped facts you can share with auditors and, where appropriate, the public.
Positioning PastWipe. PastWipe provides a privacy-security control plane that travels with the data. It adds breach-triggered non-reusability, purpose-bound usage control off-premises, and deletion/retention attestations you can verify. Our open RepSec™ protocol—optional to deploy—standardizes these guarantees for inter-agency and cross-border collaboration.
Outcome: You move from “we were breached” to “theft did not translate into ongoing harm; here’s proof.”
How PastWipe Works For Government: Neutralize, Prove, and Govern (Across Borders)
A control layer that follows the data. PastWipe encapsulates sensitive records (PII, benefits, health, law-enforcement, tax, identity artifacts) in policy-enforced envelopes. When data is shared, exported, archived, or analyzed, the envelope enforces what can happen next—even outside your perimeter.
Core capabilities:
Breach-Triggered Neutralization (BTN).
If exfiltration is detected—or a record is reported as exposed—PastWipe can flip attached usage permissions to “non-reusable.” Copies in the wild hit a cryptographic/verification dead end: they cannot be opened, verified, or monetized without an authorized, in-policy revalidation. BTN turns data theft into wasted inventory.Purpose-Bound Use (On- and Off-Prem).
Data is bound to declared purposes (e.g., benefits eligibility, fraud analytics, casework). Access outside purpose (or beyond retention) fails. This includes machine-to-machine flows across agencies and vendors. If purpose evolves, you can re-issue a signed scope with a full audit trail.Sovereign Key Control & Residency.
Governments retain custody of keys in-jurisdiction—via HSMs or government clouds—preserving sovereignty and meeting residency requirements. PastWipe integrates with gov-grade KMS/HSM stacks and supports key sharding/threshold schemes for separation of powers.Provable Deletion & Retention Attestations.
Deletion isn’t a checkbox; it’s a verifiable state change. PastWipe issues signed attestations (including for cryptographic erasure and policy-based TTLs) that map to retention schedules and legal holds. This becomes your evidentiary record for regulators, courts, and FOI/subject-access responses.Inter-Agency Sharing With Guardrails.
Cross-department collaboration (health↔benefits, justice↔social services, taxation↔customs) often breaks on policy and consent. PastWipe allows selective disclosure (attribute-level) with time-boxed, revocable permissions. If disclosure terms expire or an investigation closes, the envelope enforces it.Incident Response With a “Kill Switch.”
When a vendor is compromised or a laptop is lost, you can revoke the specific envelopes—not just the account. BTN ensures stolen records become operationally useless. Your after-action report includes what was neutralized, when, and under whose authority.Digital Identity & Trust Services Alignment.
PastWipe aligns with national eID programs and the EU’s eIDAS trust framework. Signed envelopes and usage receipts integrate with qualified signatures/timestamps and verifiable credentials—future-proofing for digital wallets and cross-border data exchange under eIDAS/eIDAS 2.Zero-Trust & SIEM-Native.
PastWipe complements zero-trust architectures: every open, transform, and disclosure emits a signed, immutable event into your SIEM/SOAR (Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, etc.) for correlation with identity, device posture, and network context.Optional RepSec™ Protocol (Open).
RepSec™ standardizes breach-triggered non-reusability and usage proofs between agencies, vendors, and jurisdictions. It’s optional: governments can run PastWipe without RepSec, and adopt the protocol when interoperability or public verification is needed.Post-Quantum-Ready Roadmap.
Cryptographic agility matters for records with multi-decade lifespans. PastWipe’s roadmap includes PQC-compatible primitives in step with NIST selections, and migration guides for long-term archives that must remain sovereign and verifiable.
Deployment models: on-prem (air-gapped options), government cloud, or hybrid. Data never needs to be centralized in a vendor’s environment. PastWipe runs where your security and residency mandates require.
High-Impact Government Use Cases (And What “Good” Looks Like)
National & regional administrations
Citizen records & registries. Civil, tax, and identity datasets wrapped in envelopes enforcing purpose and retention. BTN neutralizes leaked registries; audit artifacts answer parliamentary and regulator inquiries.
Cross-border cooperation. Customs, immigration, and security data shared under repapered disclosures with time-limited scope and signed usage receipts for each access.
Justice, policing & public safety
Case files with graduated sensitivity. Evidence, interviews, and intelligence tagged by purpose and case stage. External lab/vendor access is revocable per-envelope. BTN applies when devices or partner networks are compromised.
CJIS-aligned controls. Policy mapping to the CJIS Security Policy with chain-of-custody-friendly audit trails and immutable access receipts.
Healthcare & social services
Program eligibility & benefits. Attribute-level selective disclosure to minimize over-sharing (e.g., proof of eligibility without full medical history). Automated retention with verifiable deletion to meet statutory limits.
Public health analytics. De-identified envelopes for analytics; re-identification requires dual authorization and emits a signed, reviewable event for oversight bodies. Aligns with HIPAA in mixed funding contexts.
Finance, revenue & procurement
Tax, customs, and fraud analytics. Purpose-bound data exchanges with vendors; BTN neutralizes any partner-side exposure. Each vendor access is purpose-stamped and visible in your SIEM.
Procurement compliance. Vendors integrate via standard adapters; proofs of deletion and access minimize legal exposure and speed audits.
Identity, elections & civic tech
Digital identity & wallet pilots. Envelopes carry attributes with revocation and expiry, aligning to eIDAS/eIDAS 2. If a wallet provider is compromised, attributes can be invalidated at the envelope layer.
Open data with safety rails. Safely publish non-sensitive slices while keeping identifying attributes in sealed envelopes accessible only under declared purposes.
Municipal & regional services
Smart-city telemetry & citizen portals. Personally linked data (parking, permits, utilities) separated from raw feed data. If a SaaS supplier is breached, past exports are non-reusable without revalidation.
Records requests (FOI/SAR). Automated redaction + disclosure logs; released packets are signed, time-limited, and revocable if misused.
What “good” looks like (measurable outcomes)
Exfiltration ≠ catastrophe. Documented BTN actions prevent operational reuse of stolen data.
Audit-ready in hours, not months. Signed deletion/retention records are queryable and exportable for regulators and courts.
Lower vendor risk. Supply-chain breaches become containable; disclosures are revocable and visible.
Citizen trust restored. Public statements supported by verifiable facts, not generic assurances.
From Policy to Proof in 90 Days: A Government-Grade Adoption Path
Day 0–15 | Readiness & Mapping
First, complete a data-flow inventory. Identify crown-jewel datasets and, moreover, the high-risk vendor flows (benefits, identity, health, justice, tax) that most urgently need guardrails.
Next, translate policy into controls. Map statutes and regulations (GDPR, NIS2, eIDAS, HIPAA/CJIS/ISO 27001, plus local privacy acts) into PastWipe policy templates and retention schedules so that legal duties become technical defaults.
Then, establish a sovereign control plan. Choose deployment (on-prem, gov-cloud, or hybrid); meanwhile, confirm in-country HSM/KMS strategy and, importantly, define separation of duties to prevent concentration of power.
Day 16–45 | Pilot & Integration
To begin the pilot, envelope high-impact flows. Start with 2–3 critical exchanges—for example, benefits eligibility with a vendor, inter-agency justice data, or citizen-identity verification—so that value appears early and visibly.
Concurrently, wire SIEM/SOAR. Stream signed usage events and, furthermore, build dashboards that correlate envelope actions with identity and device posture, thereby creating real-time oversight.
In parallel, run BTN drills. Conduct tabletop and live breach-triggered-neutralization exercises on controlled copies; as a result, you validate incident playbooks and refine public-communications templates before you need them.
Day 46–90 | Scale & Attest
After validation, expand coverage. Add additional agencies, vendors, and record types; at the same time, enforce retention with attested deletions, ensuring policy is continuously evidenced.
Consequently, operationalize compliance. Generate regulator-ready evidence packs—deletion proofs, purpose receipts, and BTN reports—per framework, thus reducing audit friction.
Finally, increase citizen-facing transparency. Publish your high-level control model and, where appropriate, anonymized metrics (e.g., envelopes neutralized, deletions attested) so trust can grow alongside capability.
Procurement & Interoperability
Importantly, avoid lock-in. PastWipe supports sovereign key custody and open adapters; therefore, you retain national control rather than ceding it to a foreign keyholder.
Moreover, align with standards. PastWipe works alongside NIST controls, ISO 27001, and trust-service frameworks such as eIDAS, ensuring immediate compatibility with existing assurance programs.
Optionally, adopt RepSec™ when ready. Use RepSec™ for inter-agency or cross-border verification as needs emerge; alternatively, keep it off until policy or politics require it.
Risk-to-Value Narrative for Budget Holders
Mitigate systemic risk. When—rather than if—data is exfiltrated, BTN consequently curtails downstream harm and black-market value.
Reduce audit friction. Because evidence is signed and queryable, investigations and regulator interactions shorten significantly.
Safeguard sovereignty. With in-country keys and verifiable controls, you reinforce constitutional and political commitments to citizen privacy.
Make defensible public statements. Communicate with facts: “X records were rendered non-reusable at T ± 5 minutes; here are the independent checks,” thereby strengthening credibility.
Your Next Step (Fast)
Request a Government Readiness Assessment. In response, we will map your top-risk flows, outline a sovereign key plan, and propose a 90-day BTN pilot across two agencies and one vendor. Consequently, you obtain a concrete path from policy to proof—and, just as importantly, from breach headlines to citizen-grade trust.