Case Study
Broadcast: Super Bowl 50 Network Monitoring
During Super Bowl 50, CloudCover’s CC/B1 appliance monitored the network infrastructure at Levi’s Stadium to protect stadium operations — and the television broadcast — from cyber attack.
Challenge
The IT team at Levi’s Stadium wanted assurance that no internal or external cyber attack would impact stadium infrastructure during the Super Bowl. A network compromise during the event risked more than data: it threatened the systems behind one of the most-watched live television broadcasts of the year.
Approach
CloudCover installed the CC/B1 security appliance to monitor all network traffic — internal and external, ingress and egress — across the stadium’s high-capacity network, with full deep packet inspection. Detection combined signature-based intrusion detection with statistical analysis of traffic patterns, feeding the platform’s automated blocking and event logging.
Outcome
Over the course of the event, the platform logged a very large volume of attack events, including many that did not match existing attack signatures.
The most significant finding came from inside the network: monitoring surfaced two internal critical servers that had been compromised months before the game — compromises that had gone undetected in the security assessments conducted ahead of the event. The compromised servers were identified and taken offline during the Super Bowl.
Stadium network operations and the broadcast proceeded without incident.