Qatar Olympic Committee prepares to counter cyberthreats with Kaspersky

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) announced that it has chosen Kaspersky solutions to combat an increase in cyberthreats as it prepares for global sporting events in the country. Kaspersky provided QOC with end-to-end integrated cybersecurity solutions including Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, Kaspersky Private Security Network, Kaspersky CyberTrace, and Incident Response to limit the growing attack surface and proactively prevent security breaches.

Rashid AlNahlawi, IT Security Consultant at Qatar Olympic Committee said, “Cyberattacks are growing in volume and sophistication across the world, and Qatar is no exception. Indeed, due to its important location and growing profile worldwide, it is fast becoming a prime target for cybercriminals. Since implementing the Kaspersky solutions, the Qatar Olympic Committee has experienced a far higher detection rate of incoming cyberthreats and has been able to deter them effectively. As our longstanding partner, Kaspersky exceeded our expectations with their solutions by listening to what we needed. They gave us confidence in the products and the people behind it enabled us to have a more secure connected ecosystem.”

QOC, founded in 1979, is one of the International Olympic Committee’s 205 recognized National Olympic Committees. The committee collaborates closely with its 23 National Federations to help athletes, coaches, and officials at all levels. Given the large scale of their operations, QOC places a high value on their reputation and the security of their internal and external communications, and they required a solution that maintained data confidentiality while allowing their day-to-day operations to run smoothly.

QOC was able to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber incidents quickly thanks to Kaspersky’s comprehensive solutions. The committee can now access real-time threat intelligence and cross-reference it with information from other sources, isolate and analyze incidents, and test responses before deployment. QOC’s IT teams can be more proactive with these capabilities by conducting manual threat hunting across the network and endpoints.

“Our region is growing in popularity for sporting events. But, because sports organizations are finance and data rich, they are often prime targets of cybercrime. We are proud to be the trusted advisors of the Qatar Olympic Committee and helping them to reinforce and bolster their cybersecurity infrastructure with our solutions. Our aim was to enable the IT teams at QOC to become more capable, productive, proactive and focus on the organization’s priorities rather than constantly firefight cyberthreats. And we believe we are on the right path.” said Rashed Al Momani, Head of Sales for Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey and Africa at Kaspersky. 

QOC has moved to a managed service model since implementing Kaspersky solutions, as they anticipate significant business growth in the coming years.