Case Study: Olympic Regional Development Authority achieves PCI compliance and stronger threat detection with AT&T Cybersecurity

Securing the Infrastructure So People can Go Skiing

New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) manages ski resorts and Olympic facilities in Lake Placid and faced increasing security demands after acquiring a third resort and changing how it handled credit cards. With a small IT team and a single dedicated information security officer responsible for training, monitoring and incident response—plus a seasonal workforce that required ongoing security indoctrination—ORDA needed better log management and threat detection to meet PCI compliance and reduce the risk of breaches.

ORDA selected AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) after a competitive review and deployed OSSEC host intrusion detection, Snort/Suricata network IDS, NetFlow behavioral monitoring, and Open Threat Exchange (OTX) tools. The integrated solution improved visibility into Active Directory and privileged-account activity, enhanced malware and intrusion detection, helped maintain PCI compliance, and was rolled out across all sites—giving the security officer faster incident insight and more confidence to focus on operations (and the occasional ski break).

Olympic Regional Development Authority

Kevin Geil

Security Officer NYS ORDA