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ATLANTA, Ga. — The 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star game brought thousands of fans, players, and members of the media from around the world to Truist Park , home of the Atlanta Braves, and its bustling entertainment district that turned the city into the center of the baseball world, July 14-16, 2025.
Behind the scenes, another team worked tirelessly—not for home runs or strikeouts, but for security and resilience.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was there ensuring the safety of the event. With thousands in attendance and critical infrastructure supporting everything from transportation to digital ticketing, the stakes were high.
CISA partners with MLB, local law enforcement, and private sector organizations to fortify physical infrastructure being used during the weekend-long event. CISA’s involvement begins months in advance, working with city officials to assess vulnerabilities in the systems that power the event. Atlanta’s public transportation network, emergency communication systems, and stadium operations all rely on interconnected technology that, if disrupted, could cause chaos.
To prepare, CISA Physical Security Specialists (PSAs) conduct risk assessments of critical infrastructure, ensuring that everything from power grids to loading docks, and, most importantly, mass gathering areas.
A powerful tool for PSAs is the Infrastructure Visualization Platform (IVP), which supports critical infrastructure security and response operations by integrating high-resolution, interactive visual data, as well as additional assessment information. These imagery captures are conducted in support of National Special Security Events and other special events, steady state operations at critical infrastructure facilities, as well as in response to threats to soft targets and crowded places. The IVP program collaborates with the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other agencies to conduct imagery collections in support of special events, such as the Super Bowl, presidential debates and inaugurations, and National Collegiate Athletic Association championship events.
“Stakeholders and organizations really love this product because it’s not just a document,” said Jon Moaikel, IVP coordinator. “It’s an interactive product that proves helpful the moment you open it.”
During CISA's visit in February, IVP and Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP) teams conducted collects on the 320,000-square-foot Cobb Galleria Centre and the more than 1.1-million-square-foot stadium, Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. These collects give event planners and security teams the ability to strengthen infrastructure and build an enhanced security posture at each venue before operations begin on site.
“You get to see firsthand why a product like the IVP is so useful to organizations and local law enforcement because in most cases they are relying on floor plans, recent visits or word of mouth as physical descriptions,” said Kyle Moore, IVP team lead. "This product gives them an up-to-date product at their fingertips to use in planning and implementing security measures."
When conducting an imagery capture, the IVP team considers two viewpoints: hostile target and civil response. For the hostile target viewpoint in which a facility or building is viewed as a tactical objective, the team collects multimedia data to document approach and exit routes, use of lighting, visible and hidden entrances, loading docks, and parking garages.
In considering the civil response viewpoint, the team collects data on obstructions and restrictions that would affect the approach of emergency response vehicles, equipment to the site, and street or parking accessibility in proximity to building access points. The final product is a portable, interactive document containing the imagery, data, and analysis of the facility that is provided to the requesting stakeholder, typically a facility representative, or special event security planning personnel. This information assists these users in training, planning, and making informed incident preparedness and management decisions.
To learn more about the IVP program, visit CISA.gov.
| Date Taken: | 02.14.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 09.17.2025 08:17 |
| Story ID: | 547587 |
| Location: | ATLANTA, GEORGIA, US |
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