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February marks Super Bowl season, the most-watched sporting event in the U.S.

More than just a game, it’s a cultural phenomenon, bringing together millions of fans, media, and high-profile figures. While excitement builds on the field, security teams work tirelessly behind the scenes to safeguard players, coaches, and attendees from both physical and cyber threats.  

Rising Security Threats in the NFL 

In 2024, threats against NFL personnel surged, underscoring the growing need for advanced security measures. Key risks included:  

Home Invasions

A South African criminal syndicate targeted the homes of three NFL players.  

Stalking

Players and coaches faced in-person and online harassment, leading to legal actions and heightened security.

Social media

Nearly 40% of players encountered hacking attempts and misinformation campaigns. 

Phishing Attacks

35% of players and coaches were targeted by phishing scams disguised as official team communication. 

Credential Theft

20% of players and their families faced attempts to steal financial and personal account logins. 

The NFL’s Security Strategy 

To combat these threats, the NFL deploys advanced security measures in a GSOC (Global Security Operations Center), protecting site-based and individual security, along with phishing, malware, and ransomware, while ensuring real-time network visibility. It also collaborates with federal agencies, local law enforcement, and tech providers to secure ticketing, checkpoints, venue entry, and other protective measures.  

NFL’s GSOC has visibility into every venue in the organization, via individual cameras and VMS. For global brands protecting human assets, seamlessly uniting a common operating picture that includes multiple generations and brands of technology is important. Examples of these include Avigilon, Axis, Milestone, Genetec, Qognify, and more, all of which integrate seamlessly with Activu’s visability software platform for critical operations.

Organizations with a global reach and important assets need more than cameras for a well-rounded common operating picture. Intrusion-detection systems, physical tracking applications and maps, and other tools specialize in the monitoring of security for a variety of factors. These tools often work in disparate, disconnected silos, but modern organizations with a Next-Gen GSOC, SOC, or NOC are able to stream their output together into a full view of the risks and status across the enterprise through use of visability.

Widely-used tools like ServiceNow gather timely output from a number of monitoring systems across the physical and cyber space. And cyber security or network monitoring tools like Splunk, ThousandEyes, and others, keep watch over specific systems and vulnerabilities, in order to keep the organization secure and operational, 24/7.

ALL of the tools above, and more, integrate with visability from Activu—to automatically change the view of a common operating picture and virtual video walls—displaying the most relevant apps and content at the moment a critical event is detected. Saving hours, minutes, or seconds in a critical incident can mean the difference between a managed situation, or one that leads to lasting effects.

Security Solutions for Today’s Threat Landscape 

Like the NFL, Fortune 500 companies face increasing threats to executives, employees, and critical assets. Activu understands the evolving risks. Our software platform, visability, provides real-time visual collaboration for security teams, both physical and cyber, enabling faster response times and seamless coordination across control rooms, virtual spaces, and mobile operations. 

Leading organizations in public safety, energy, utilities, transportation, and more rely on visability to stay ahead of emerging threats. Discover how we’ve helped a world-renowned global sports league strengthen security across their control room video walls, in the conference rooms and stadiums:  

Global Sports League: An elegant control room solution for a high-profile,  enterprise-security challenge
This sports league chose Activu vis/ability for their demanding GSOC and all-encompassing critical security mission …
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About Activu

Vis/ability makes any information visible, collaborative, and proactive for people tasked with monitoring critical operations. Users of the platform see, share, and respond to events in real time, with context, to improve incident response, decision-making, and management. Activu software, solutions, and services benefit the daily lives of billions of people around the globe. Founded in 1983 as the first U.S.-based company to develop command center visualization technology, more than 1,300 control rooms depend on Activu. activu.com.