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A reference blueprint for ministries, agencies, and state-owned enterprises moving sensitive workloads to the cloud.
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Public sector cloud migrations across Africa are accelerating, but they are colliding with a security reality that perimeter-era architectures were never built to handle. This whitepaper presents a zero-trust reference blueprint developed across engagements with revenue authorities, national identity programs, and state-owned utilities. We open by explaining why public sector cloud looks different from enterprise cloud — the procurement constraints, the audit obligations, the political sensitivity of citizen data — and why those differences make zero-trust principles even more important, not less. The architecture sections walk through identity (workforce, workload, and citizen), network segmentation aligned to least-privilege, data classification mapped to country-specific protection regimes including Ghana's Data Protection Act, Nigeria's NDPA, and Kenya's Data Protection Act, and continuous verification anchored in a single observability lake. A dedicated chapter addresses procurement and governance, with sample clauses that ministries can use to embed zero-trust expectations directly into vendor contracts. The report closes with a migration playbook organized into discrete, fundable phases, plus two anonymized case studies — a national tax authority and a state utility — that illustrate the model in production. Throughout, we draw on Smart Africa Alliance interoperability guidance to frame cross-border data sharing in a way that respects national sovereignty while enabling continental scale.
8 chapters covering market context, architecture, and operating model.
Zero-trust in the public sector cannot be retrofitted onto a perimeter-first network — it has to be embedded in the procurement specification itself.
Identity is the new perimeter: workforce, workload, and citizen identities must each have their own lifecycle, evaluation, and revocation path.
Data residency commitments aligned to Ghana's Data Protection Act, Nigeria's NDPA, and Kenya's Data Protection Act should be encoded as policy, not paperwork.
Continuous verification only works when audit logs, telemetry, and access reviews are wired into a single, queryable lake from day one.
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