Case Study: National Football League (NFL) achieves 24/7 global situational awareness with Dataminr Pulse

National Football League - Customer Case Study

The National Football League (NFL) protects 32 teams, thousands of employees, and venues worldwide through a small Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) intelligence team of seven. Faced with the need to maintain continuous, global situational awareness—made more difficult by COVID-19 remote work and limited staff—the NFL turned to Dataminr and its Dataminr Pulse service to monitor emerging risks in real time.

Dataminr Pulse delivered hyperlocal, real-time alerts from hundreds of thousands of public sources to the GSOC via mobile app and email, enabling split-second decisions and 24/7 visibility beyond the team’s size. Dataminr was the first platform to alert the NFL to the December 25, 2020 Nashville RV bombing—providing early line-of-sight well before major news—and has since helped the league inform stakeholders quickly, sustain continuous monitoring with minimal staffing, and plan international events like the NFL London Games.

National Football League

Robert Gummer

Director, Intelligence Operations