What Cyber Threats Targeting Global Sports Can Teach Enterprises
Major sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, Formula 1, and the Olympics attract enormous global attention, financial activity, digital engagement, and interconnected technology ecosystems. That visibility also creates opportunities for threat actors to launch phishing campaigns, impersonation attacks, fraudulent websites and applications, DDoS attacks, and other disruptive cyber activity.
But these threats are not limited to the sports industry.
The tactics used around major sporting events reflect many of the same security risks enterprises face, including social engineering, third-party threats, identity attacks, growing attack surfaces, and operational disruption.
This also reviews cyber risks in connection to large scale sporting events and looks at how security teams can benefit from these events to develop a better understanding and appreciation of enterprise risk.
What You’ll Learn
- How threat actors exploit the popularity, urgency, and digital activity surrounding major sporting events
- How fake domains, fraudulent websites, malicious applications, and phishing campaigns can be used to target users
- What DDoS activity surrounding major sporting events reveals about the risk of operational disruption
- How sponsors, vendors, partners, and other third parties can expand the attack surface
- How techniques seen around global sporting events reflect broader enterprise cybersecurity risks
- How can these incidents help security teams increase visibility, threat detection, and response?
Major sporting events provide a highly visible example of how attackers exploit complex digital ecosystems, trusted brands, third-party relationships, and periods of heightened activity.
See What Global Sports Cyber Threats Reveal About Enterprise Risk
Get to know the threats targeting the world’s biggest sporting events and understand what they can teach security teams about protecting enterprise environments.