Kaspersky Enterprise Cybersecurity

True cybersecurity
ensures bright future
for world chessworldchess.com
www.fide.com

World Chess Federation
Partnership agreement set to deliver checkmate to cyber criminals.

Online• 1 billion chess installations
on smartphones• 100,000 online matches taking
place 24/7
• 600-700 million regular
players worldwide• Kaspersky Lab sponsorship andcybersecurity measures

Chess is one of the internet successstories of the 21st century, withhundreds of millions of players now
competing regularly online.
New technology has transformed the way the sport is organized, presented andplayed, enabling fans worldwide to use their devices to follow every move madeby the elite players, streamed live from the top tournaments. And on PCs andmobile devices worldwide, tens of thousands of chess lovers are logging onand playing.
The World Chess Federation (Federation Internationale des Echecs, or FIDE)
is the governing body and is dedicated to reviving the sport by expanding theinternational chess community. FIDE runs chess events and cultural programsaround the world to encourage people of all ages to play, with the aim ofrepositioning chess as a high-profile sport.

Challenge“We have a huge
responsibility tocomplete thetransformationof the sport. We
feel much more
confident knowingthat we are backed
by Kaspersky Lab.”
Ilya Merenzon,CEO,World Chess Events

The highlight of the sporting calendar is the World Chess Championship,organized by World Chess Ltd, a commercial partner of FIDE. A two-year seriesof events around the world produces the World Chess Champion, one of themost prestigious titles in sport, currently held by Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen.
These events are broadcast by worldchess.com the official website of the World
Chess Championships, delivering web casting, articles, expert analysis, video
features and interactive graphics on top players.
In 2016 the World Championship match in New York was watched online bymore than 10 million viewers, with the sport’s booming popularity and profile
attracting new commercial partners and extensive media coverage.
With its huge online following and the importance of technology and data
analysis in player performance, FIDE and World Chess are determined to protect
the reputation and integrity of the sport by guarding against the serious effects
of a successful cybersecurity attack.
Elite players need to have confidence that they will have secure access to thedata they need to prepare their strategy for the next match. And tens of millionsof viewers expect live and uninterrupted coverage of the top tournaments.
Sponsors are expecting a healthy return on investment and to be associatedwith a respected sport with professional systems, administration andstrong governance.
“Like all large businesses we face risks from cyber-attacks – and we havesuffered from them in the past,” says World Chess IT Director, Lev Rostunov.
“But with the worldwide growth of our sport and our brand in recent years weknew that we needed to improve the way we protect ourselves and everyone
involved in the sport.”

1Secure
World class protection of
infrastructure and players

Partnership
Strategic planning and technicaland commercial support

Control
Essential during a period of
unprecedented transformation

The Kaspersky Lab solution
In February 2017 FIDE, World Chess and Kaspersky Lab jointly announced
a cybersecurity partnership, initially embracing the two-year World Chess
Championship cycle in 2017-18.
The agreement is the culmination of a growing relationship and a recognitionof the vital importance of having world-class cybersecurity measures in place
to protect and enhance the sport.
The partnership will include cybersecurity protection at FIDE headquarters inSwitzerland, elite chess players competing in the World Chess Championshipand the infrastructure of the tournament.
It also includes group cybersecurity training for players, while Kaspersky Lab’s
branding will be visible on all player tables during the matches of the2017-18 championship.

MobilePromotion of protection to
1 billion mobile players“Sponsoring a global sport like chess is a major investment and commitment,
so we are very pleased that Kaspersky Lab have joined us. They are a high value
partner, their brand and their technical expertise immediately elevates the sport– they are very good at getting things done. They have wide experience of sports
sponsorship, for example in Formula 1, so there is much we can learn from them
about how best to develop our sport and to capitalize on the many opportunities
we have,” explains Ilya Merenzon, CEO, World Chess Events.

Protecting the crown jewels
One of Kaspersky Lab’s first interventions was to deploy its market-leading
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) solution within FIDE and World Chess,providing continuous, high-speed analysis and protection of all online traffic,
including data shared via the Amazon Web Services public cloud platform
used by FIDE and World Chess.

2Kaspersky Lab specialists also completed a detailed application security
assessment and discovered vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats. Kaspersky
Lab helped to prepare the plan of vulnerability remediation and make theapplication more secure.
Adds Ilya Merenzon: “Kaspersky Lab is protecting the crown jewels of the sport,
keeping it safe, secure and free from damage and criminal activity. Ultimately ifwe are successful together at the elite level it will encourage every chess player
in the world to take advantage of Kaspersky’s cybersecurity protection too.
“This is the most significant time in the 2000-year history of chess with booming
numbers of players, whose average age is falling all the time. Chess is made forthe digital age, but we have a huge responsibility to successfully complete thetransformation of the sport.
“With Kaspersky Lab with us we can look forward to achieving our ambitions withrenewed confidence and optimism.”

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