Case Study: World Chess achieves uninterrupted live coverage and robust cybersecurity for players and infrastructure with Kaspersky Lab

True cybersecurity ensures bright future for world chess

World Chess, the commercial partner of FIDE running the World Chess Championship and worldchess.com, faced the challenge of protecting its reputation, live broadcasts, player data and tournament infrastructure as the sport grew into a major online phenomenon. With millions of viewers, tens of thousands of simultaneous matches and a global player base, World Chess partnered with Kaspersky Lab to strengthen cybersecurity across FIDE headquarters, tournament systems and elite players’ workflows.

Kaspersky Lab deployed its market-leading DDoS protection to provide continuous, high‑speed analysis and shielding of all online traffic (including AWS-hosted services), performed a detailed application security assessment with vulnerability remediation, and delivered group training and ongoing support. These measures helped secure live coverage watched by more than 10 million viewers, protect the championship infrastructure and players, and extend cybersecurity outreach to a mobile audience numbering in the hundreds of millions — giving World Chess renewed confidence in the integrity of the sport.

World Chess

Lev Rostunov

IT Director