With cyber attacks increasingly targeting large-scale sporting events, Rob Otto, EMEA field CTO at Ping Identity – a global software company specialising in identity management solutions – explores why identity verification is critical to the physical and digital security of such events.

This Summer’s Olympic Games in Paris saw hackers target the official Olympics’ mobile application with phishing attempts and a coordinated attack made on the French high-speed rail hours ahead of the Games’ opening ceremony.

Despite the biggest sporting events of the year – the Olympic and Paralympic Games – having finished, we must continue to remain vigilant at similar large-scale sporting events.

How to mitigate cyber attacks

Identity verification is a critical component in ensuring the physical and digital security of events and the many devices operating within them.

As large-scale events, such as the Olympics and Paralympics, become more digitised in the way they ticket and communicate with fans,...