This presentation examines the journey taken to establish the CSIRT team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This large project was executed in a short period of time and posed a lot challenges. Rocha will explain the strategy in getting his team ready for the games, the CSIRT timeline, their preparation using wargames exercise, the challenges with rapid environment growth, government agencies, and third-party companies. In addition, Rocha will discuss the operations during the Olympics, incidents, the Technology Operations Center, threat intel timeline as well as lessons learned from this athletic journey.