Bangladesh has joined Have I Been Pwned’s free government offering, becoming the 43rd government onboarded to the service, according to Troy Hunt. The BGD e-GOV CIRT department now has full API access to query its government domains and monitor them for future breaches.
Hunt said Bangladesh is joining a growing list of national governments using Have I Been Pwned to help protect public sector digital assets. He added that the service will support efforts to identify exposure of government email addresses in data breaches and respond quickly when new incidents appear.
What the government can do with the service
- Query government domains through the API
- Monitor those domains for future breaches
- Track exposure of government email addresses in data breaches
- Respond more quickly when new incidents are identified
Why it matters
The onboarding gives Bangladesh’s cyber response team access to tools designed to help surface breach exposure tied to government domains. No further technical details were provided in the source material.
Bangladesh now joins 42 other governments using the free service. According to the source, the goal is to help public sector teams spot risk earlier and deal with new breach incidents as they emerge.
Source: Troy Hunt’s post on Have I Been Pwned.