Authored by Steve Nowell, Cisco Buyer Supply Safety Architect
Securing the NFL’s premier occasions just like the Tremendous Bowl LVII in February and extra lately their Draft, brings plenty of distinctive cybersecurity challenges. The Tremendous Bowl is among the most-watched sporting occasions on this planet, with 115 million viewers this yr. The Draft can also be huge, with greater than 300,000 folks attending in Kansas Metropolis in April. Cisco is each an Official Cybersecurity Associate of the NFL and a sponsor. Given the gravity of those premier NFL occasions, our relationship, and the engaging goal they characterize to risk actors, Cisco has no margin for error – none. This community merely should be safe and accessible, particularly contemplating the belief the NFL has chosen to place into our folks and safety merchandise. It’s Cisco’s duty to make the NFL safe. And we’ve got…
Cisco Buyer Expertise (CX) led the way in which for the second yr 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 for the reason that engagement started and with 4 occasions behind us, CX has turn into an extension of the NFL’s workforce. With direct interface to NFL cybersecurity management, the 32 golf equipment, and different NFL companions, we’re not a bit participant in preserving these occasions safe; Cisco CX is a trusted associate. “Cisco CX’s depth and breadth of expertise in understanding the dimensions of and securing our surroundings from threats ensured that we have been well-prepared forward of Tremendous Bowl LVII,” stated Tomás Maldonado, NFL Chief Data Safety Officer. That stated, it’s not solely CX however all of Cisco, together with Safe enterprise unit and Talos Menace Intelligence, coming collectively as one unified expertise.
Whereas our safety design varies from event-to-event, the Cisco Safe merchandise used to assist them have been fixed. On the basis is our Cisco Safe Firewall deployed in a number of venues (we’re answerable for securing the NFL at extra than simply the occasion), Cisco Safe Firepower Administration Heart, Cisco Umbrella DNS Safety, and Cisco Malware Analytics. The newest inclusion at this yr’s Draft was our lately introduced Prolonged Detection and Response (XDR) answer, a key risk investigation platform sitting on high of the safety stack. It performs a essential function, 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 higher than the sum of its components – it’s really the case.
An attention-grabbing story from the Draft is the place we deployed our answer, in entrance of an NFL broadcast associate with their very own firewall, to make sure site visitors coming out and in was completely inspected to dam threats earlier than inflicting hurt. Because of this, we have been in a position to catch safety threats missed by the printed associate’s firewall because of our Safe Firewall, powered by Talos Menace Intelligence. Merely put, we blocked threats they didn’t.
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