Authored by Steve Nowell, Cisco Customer Delivery Security Architect
Securing the NFL’s premier occasions just like the Super Bowl LVII in February and extra not too long ago their Draft, brings quite a few distinctive cybersecurity challenges. The Super Bowl is likely one of the most-watched sporting occasions on the planet, with 115 million viewers this 12 months. The Draft can be large, with greater than 300,000 individuals attending in Kansas City in April. Cisco is each an Official Cybersecurity Partner of the NFL and a sponsor. Given the gravity of those premier NFL occasions, our relationship, and the enticing goal they characterize to risk actors, Cisco has no margin for error – none. This community merely have to be safe and obtainable, particularly contemplating the belief the NFL has chosen to place into our individuals and safety merchandise. It’s Cisco’s duty to make the NFL safe. And we’ve got…
Cisco Customer Experience (CX) led the best way for the second 12 months in a row, planning, designing, implementing, and working our safety answer on behalf of the NFL. From an operational standpoint, Cisco is the eyes of the NFL, working carefully with them as their safety analysts and threat-hunters. Two and a half years because the engagement started and with 4 occasions behind us, CX has grow to be an extension of the NFL’s crew. With direct interface to NFL cybersecurity management, the 32 golf equipment, and different NFL companions, we’re not a bit participant in holding these occasions safe; Cisco CX is a trusted accomplice. “Cisco CX’s depth and breadth of experience in understanding the scale of and securing our environment from threats ensured that we were well-prepared ahead of Super Bowl LVII,” stated Tomás Maldonado, NFL Chief Information Security Officer. That stated, it isn’t solely CX however all of Cisco, together with Secure enterprise unit and Talos Threat Intelligence, coming collectively as one unified expertise.
While our safety design varies from event-to-event, the Cisco Secure merchandise used to help them have been fixed. At the muse is our Cisco Secure Firewall deployed in a number of venues (we’re accountable for securing the NFL at extra than simply the occasion), Cisco Secure Firepower Management Center, Cisco Umbrella DNS Security, and Cisco Malware Analytics. The most up-to-date inclusion at this 12 months’s Draft was our not too long ago introduced Extended Detection and Response (XDR) answer, a key risk investigation platform sitting on high of the safety stack. It performs a vital position, being the glue binding collectively the safety telemetry from all of our safety merchandise, designed to speed up risk detection and response. The tight integration between all of those Cisco merchandise proves the adage of the whole answer being better than the sum of its elements – it’s really the case.
An fascinating story from the Draft is the place we deployed our answer, in entrance of an NFL broadcast accomplice with their very own firewall, to make sure visitors coming out and in was completely inspected to dam threats earlier than inflicting hurt. As a outcome, we have been in a position to catch safety threats missed by the published accomplice’s firewall because of our Secure Firewall, powered by Talos Threat Intelligence. Simply put, we blocked threats they didn’t.
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