Nick Doyle

Now, organisers of the World Cup in the United States have put together what they describe as an unprecedented plan to combat hostile drone threats.

Now, this plan will have no drone zones and dark web scanning to not only detect but also mitigate against any potential dangers.

Nick Doyle is Head of Enterprise Security Risk Management and Practice for Kroll's Risk Advisory Service and is on the line.

Good morning, Nick.

Thank you for being with us.

So when you look at the World Cup as an event happening in the United States, how much of a target is it for nefarious operators?

Yeah, I mean, you could say that.

You could also look at all of those organisations, federal, state and external private security as well, and wonder whether they might get in each other's way.

The greatest threats then to events like this, they come not from actors who are attempting to enter the countries that you've mentioned there, the host countries for the World Cup, but those who are already there.

Is that right?

We've been talking about drones here as well, Nick, because we have the presidency of the EU coming up from July until December.

And countries who are running big events are really grappling with this problem, aren't they?

But this is described as an unprecedented plan for the World Cup, and there will be attempts to mitigate in advance with this monitoring of the dark web.

What can you tell us about this?

Because

you've got two strands here.

You've got dealing with it in the moment, when you see the drone and trying to get it out of the sky before it does any harm, but also trying to get intelligence on what is being planned.

systems that that can be used to take down drones and i think they'll be used effectively in these circumstances so if you're risk assessing an event like this and you're looking at the the list of games the ones that you can see in the early rounds you'd probably have a have a good idea that it will be the very big games the ones that will be hugely popular that you'd have a focus on but also there will be less high profile games that will have teams playing in them that might just attract trouble you'd be watching for that as well nick

Nick, thank you very much for telling us about it.

Nick Doyle there from Kroll's Risk Advisory Service.