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GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT

When the launch is the event, so is the attack. Keep the experience live and the players’ trust intact.

A launch day outage is a refund, a review bomb, and a headline. Athena keeps it live.

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The threat reality

Your world, not a vendor’s.

Gaming and entertainment is where a mass consumer audience, a real money economy, and a service that never sleeps all meet, and the worst moment to be hit is the moment everyone is watching. A launch, a finale, or a live event is a magnet: a denial of service or an outage turns into refunds, churn, and review bombs within hours. The player base is one of the largest identity surfaces anywhere, which makes credential stuffing and account takeover relentless, and stolen accounts, skins, and in game currency convert straight to cash. Payment fraud rides the same rails. And the crown jewels are not only data: an unreleased title or film, and the source and assets behind it, leak once and the release is damaged for good. Behind all of it sits a lean security team defending a global estate of studios, live operations, storefronts, and third party platforms, under PCI for payments and a privacy regime that now covers a great many minors.

The Adversaries that embody the fear
Outcomes, ranked for you

The results your buyers actually fund.

The seven outcomes are not equal in every sector. Here is the order that matters here.

1

Improve Resilience

Keep operating, and prove it, when you are hit.

2

Reduce Risk

Turn an open ended liability into a bounded, evidenced one.

3

Total Visibility

One trustworthy answer to what you have, what is exposed, and what changed.

4

Continuous Compliance

Make the audit a continuous state, not a fire drill.

The buying committee

Four people decide, influence and spend.

The capability does not change between them. The register, the metric and the proof do.

The economic buyer
Board, CEO, Studio Head, CFO
A launch day or a live event that goes dark is not an IT outage. It is refunds, a wave of churn, a review bombed score, and a hit to a franchise you spent years building. Athena keeps the experience live and contains the threat before the audience ever feels it.
Lead with: protect the launch and the franchise
The decision maker
CISO, CIO, Head of Live Operations
You run a lean team against a service that never sleeps, across studios, live operations, storefronts, and platforms you do not own. Athena covers the gap with agents and keeps humans on the loop where player trust and real money demand it.
Lead with: cover an always on global estate without a 24/7 army
The technical influencer
Head of SecOps, SRE, Platform
Aegis triages the attack and contains within the authority you set per system. Every action is reversible and logged, so stopping an account takeover wave or a malicious client never means taking down a live shard your players are in.
Lead with: contain without taking the service down
The risk and compliance influencer
GRC, Privacy, Payments
PCI evidence for the payment flow, and privacy evidence for a user base that includes a great many minors, assembles itself continuously, so the assessment and the data subject request stop being a scramble.
Lead with: PCI, GDPR and COPPA, continuous
The counterforce

The Defenders, paired to your Adversaries.

Athena commands the operation, Aegis detects and responds within the authority you set, Vigil runs the watch, and Citadel hardens the stack and proves it. Every autonomous action is under an authority matrix you control.

Proof

Sourced, or marked honestly.

Every number carries an independent or government source. We never cite a security vendor’s breach-cost average as fact, and we do not invent customer outcomes.

  • Consumer fraud sits at record scale: the FBI IC3 logged $16.6B in reported losses in 2024, the environment a mass entertainment audience and its stored payment credentials live inside FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024 (government, victim-reported)
  • Breach cost is a heavy-tailed distribution, not a vendor average: typical incidents run in the low hundreds of thousands; the median has risen to about $3M, while tail events reach about $32M Cyentia Institute, Information Risk Insights Study 2025 (independent, records-based)
  • Design-partner proof, in their words
    We do not invent customer outcomes. A named result goes here when a design partner in this sector supplies one.

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