Case Study: Major League Sports Organization achieves early threat detection and ICS-SCADA protection with Attivo Networks' ThreatDefend

Major Sports Organization Protects Critical Infrastructure With Deception Technology

Major League Sports Organization faced an urgent security challenge ahead of major televised events: limited visibility into their ICS‑SCADA networks, multiple unknown misconfigurations, and insufficient staff, budget, and patching options to deploy conventional prevention tools. Concerned that an attack could shut down critical systems and cause bodily harm, they turned to Attivo Networks and its ThreatDefend Deception Platform to get reliable, low‑noise visibility and actionable alerts.

Attivo Networks deployed the ThreatDefend Deception Platform (including the BOTsink engagement server), which exposed network misconfigurations, detected activity that bypassed perimeter defenses, and allowed the team to identify and quarantine an unknown actor in the early stages of an attack. The solution delivered high‑fidelity alerts, significantly reduced time‑to‑discovery and time‑to‑response (saving hours if not days) without adding resources, and has since been rolled out to multiple stadiums to protect future events.