Government & public sector
Public institutions are high-value targets. They rarely have the teams to match.
Libraries, universities, academic networks, and local governments operate networks that serve the public, often with small IT teams and constrained budgets. When an attack succeeds, the consequences are visible, public, and political in ways that commercial organizations rarely face. RioRey is built to protect networks like yours without requiring a security team to match the threat.
The challenges you face
Public accountability
When you go down, it is news
A bank going offline is a business problem. A hospital, library, university, or city government going offline is a public event. It gets reported, it gets asked about by oversight bodies, and it reflects on the institution in ways that last well beyond the outage itself.
Team size
You cannot staff a 24-hour security operation
Most public institutions run IT teams that are responsible for far more than network security. A DDoS response that requires skilled intervention in the middle of the night is not a realistic model when there may be one person on call for everything. Protection has to work automatically or it will not work at all.
Open networks
Your network was built for access, not defense
Academic and public networks are architecturally open by design. That openness is essential to their purpose, but it also means anomaly-based detection fails because there is no consistent baseline to measure against. Detection built on attack methodology rather than traffic history is the only approach that works reliably here.
How RioRey fits your operation
01
Protection that runs without anyone in the room.
RIOS analytics detect and mitigate automatically across all 25 attack classes, covering Layer 3 through Layer 7. There is no activation step, no rule to write, and no engineer required to initiate a response. When an attack starts, mitigation starts. Your team finds out through rWeb reporting, not through a call at 2am asking them to do something about it.
02
Works from day one on any network, regardless of traffic history.
Detection is built on the underlying mechanics of DDoS attacks, not on what your traffic looked like last month. This is particularly important for academic and public networks where student populations, public events, and seasonal patterns mean traffic is never truly stable. There is no learning period and no tuning required.
03
Scale to handle serious volumetric attacks without owning the infrastructure.
rCloud gives public institutions access to large-scale scrubbing capacity on demand. When an attack exceeds your edge capacity, traffic is routed to rCloud, filtered, and returned clean. You retain full visibility and direct control through rWeb throughout the event. No black box, no loss of oversight, no dependency on a vendor to tell you what happened after the fact.
04
EU-based infrastructure for European public institutions.
RioRey's scrubbing centers and rWeb management platform are EU-based. For publicly funded European institutions with data residency requirements or procurement policies that restrict non-EU infrastructure, this is a straightforward answer. Your traffic is processed in the EU and your management data is EU-hosted, with GDPR applicable across the platform.
Flexible acquisition for constrained budgets
Hardware protection without a capital budget line item.
Buying network security hardware traditionally requires capital approval, procurement committee sign-off, and a budget line that competes with everything else the institution needs. RioRey now offers hardware on a term subscription model, which means physical appliance protection that is funded as an operational expense rather than a capital purchase. For institutions where getting a capex approval is a significant obstacle, this changes the conversation considerably. Virtual machine instances are available on the same subscription basis for institutions that already have virtualization infrastructure in place.
Deployment paths in order of fit
Lowest barrier to entry
rCloud only
No hardware to procure, no infrastructure to operate. RioRey's EU-based scrubbing network absorbs attack traffic before it reaches your network. You retain full visibility and control through rWeb. For institutions where budget and team size make on-premise deployment difficult, this is the most practical starting point.
Scrubbing: rCloud EU network
Management: rWeb portal with full attack visibility and controls
Activation: Same-day deployment available
Management: rWeb portal with full attack visibility and controls
Activation: Same-day deployment available
No hardware required
Hardware or VM subscription with rCloud overflow
A small on-premise filtering instance sized to your uplink handles common attacks locally with minimal latency. rCloud absorbs larger volumetric events that exceed your edge capacity. Available on a term subscription basis so there is no large upfront capital requirement. Hardware or VM depending on your infrastructure.
On-premise: RE10, RE-4000, or rVM series on subscription
Cloud overflow: rCloud EU network
Management: Unified rWeb
Cloud overflow: rCloud EU network
Management: Unified rWeb
Subscription available
On-premise only
For institutions with specific requirements around on-site data processing or where procurement policy requires owned infrastructure. Full RIOS protection at your network edge with no dependency on cloud routing. Available as hardware purchase, hardware subscription, or VM subscription.
Hardware purchase or subscription: RE100, RS40, RE10, RE-4000
VM subscription: rVM series on customer infrastructure
Management: rWeb
VM subscription: rVM series on customer infrastructure
Management: rWeb
Maximum control
Why automated protection matters here specifically
The institutions most likely to face public consequences from an attack are often the least able to staff a real-time response.
Signature-based systems need rule updates to stay current. Anomaly-based systems need stable baselines, which academic and public networks never have. Both models assume someone is available and skilled enough to respond when something goes wrong. RioRey's approach is different from the ground up. Detection is built on the underlying methodology of DDoS attacks, which does not change when attackers rotate tools or rename variants. Mitigation runs automatically at line rate without any human trigger. For a small IT team responsible for an entire institution's infrastructure, that consistency is not a convenience feature. It is the only model that actually holds up in practice.
Protecting a public institution? Let us find the right fit.
We work with organizations of all sizes and budget structures. There is a deployment model that works for yours.
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