Collaboration is the key to a secure world-class sporting event

2021-02-10 05:30

I've seen this collaboration up close due to my company's involvement in helping to secure Super Bowl LV. The Super Bowl is designated as a National Special Security Event, which means the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies are deeply involved.

Securing the Super Bowl is highly complex since the task is so much more than simply ensuring the physical safety of the players, their support teams, the fans, and the stadium.

Such a breach would likely be portrayed everywhere as a direct hit on the Super Bowl and so tarnish the reputation of the entire event as being vulnerable to cyberattack.

We're able to use the advantage of the months of lead-up to the Super Bowl to identify the most likely targets for hackers across system endpoints, networks, and applications as well as the methods they may use to gain entry.

In the case of the Super Bowl, the adage we're so fond of - "Security is a team sport" - makes so much sense.

For all of us on the cybersecurity teams, Super Bowl Sunday was a hands-on-keyboards workday with our end goal to ensure that all the fans and the players enjoy a safe and memorable experience.

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