Government Content Governance
Stop citizen PII from reaching your public website
Government websites serve the public, and the public expects their personal information to stay private. PillarShield checks content at the moment someone hits publish in your CMS. If it finds citizen PII, internal case details, credentials, or policy violations, it blocks the publish and logs the decision as audit evidence. Works on Drupal, WordPress, or any CMS. About 1 second per check.
Small teams, public websites, protected data
City, county, and state offices publish a constant stream of public-facing content, and the people managing it are often a small web team handling requests from every department. Content regularly arrives from department staff with minimal training, pulled straight from internal documents or case management systems, and published before anyone catches what came with it. Citizen PII gets pasted into the CMS and published before anyone has a chance to review it.
Federal contractors face the same pressure with higher stakes. Published content tied to government programs must meet strict data handling and disclosure requirements. 53% of all confirmed data breaches involve personally identifiable information (IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2025). State privacy laws apply to government-held citizen data, and the consequences of exposure are not just financial. Public trust, the foundation every government office operates on, erodes with every incident.
The risk is not that your team is careless. The risk is that there is no automated check between your CMS and the public internet.
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What Gets Caught at the Publish Gate
Citizen PII detection
Social Security numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, case numbers, permit details, and financial information. Deterministic rules catch the patterns. AI handles ambiguous cases like names embedded in meeting minutes or partial identifiers in public notices.
Credential and internal reference detection
API keys, internal system URLs, admin credentials, case management links, and test environment references. Caught before they reach a public .gov page.
Prohibited terms and policy rules
Classification markings like FOUO, SBU, or classified that must never appear on public pages. Partisan and campaign language restricted on government sites. Draft markers, embargoed content, pre-decisional information, and terms restricted by policy or legal counsel. You define the list. PillarShield enforces it for every editor across every department site.
Tone and safety checks
Plain language violations, passive voice, bureaucratic jargon, and reading levels above 8th grade. Content that should not be public-facing. Deterministic rules always block. AI-powered checks warn or block based on the confidence thresholds you set.
An Evidence Trail for Public Accountability
Government offices answer to the public, to oversight bodies, to auditors, and to open records requests. When someone asks how your organization governs what gets published to your website, a policy document is not evidence. Every PillarShield decision is logged server-side with timestamps, actor IDs, content hashes, and violation details. Hash-chained and verifiable.
Immutable audit trail
Every allow, warn, and block decision is recorded outside your CMS. The log survives CMS migrations, platform upgrades, and staff turnover. When an auditor, FOIA request, or oversight inquiry asks what governance was in place, you hand them the evidence.
No training required for editors
Department staff see allow, warn, or block decisions at the publish button with a clear explanation of what triggered. No compliance onboarding. No policy handbook. The check happens where the work happens, whether that editor has been on staff for ten years or ten days.
Offices handling protected health information can add the HIPAA Compliance Pack (+$199/mo) to Protect or Managed for 6-year audit retention. See compliance pack details.
Works With Your CMS Now
Many government websites run on Drupal. Some run WordPress. Others run legacy platforms or headless setups. PillarShield governs all of them with one set of rules and one audit trail.
Drupal
Module on Drupal.org. Install with Composer and connect in minutes.
WordPress
Download from GitHub. WordPress.org directory submission in review.
Everything else
REST API. One endpoint, same request format. If your platform can make an HTTP POST, PillarShield can govern it.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Publish Checks | Compliance Packs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $299/mo | 500/mo | - |
| Protect | $799/mo | 2,000/mo | +$199/mo |
| Managed | $2,000+/mo | Unlimited | +$199/mo |
Early adopter pricing: code beta50for3 for 50% off your first 3 months. Full pricing details and FAQ.
See What PillarShield Catches on Your Government Website
14 days. 200 checks. Full Protect-level access. No credit card required. Your audit trail and configuration carry over if you subscribe.
Early adopter pricing: 50% off your first 3 months with code beta50for3 at checkout.
Find out what is getting published without a safety net
200 checks. 14 days. No credit card. Connect your CMS in minutes and see what PillarShield catches before a citizen, auditor, or oversight body does.