Many will agree that hacking, modding and glitching has plagued the online areas of the franchise in recent years. When speaking to NowGamer », online director Dan Bunting said that the exploitation of glitches in order to boost XP has "diminished the reputation of the franchise in a lot of people's eyes". He believes that anti-cheating measures in Black Ops will be the most stringent the CoD series has ever seen. He insisted that "cheating won't pay" and it will "just bring down the ban hammer".
It appears that Treyarch are very dedicated to security of online play in order to create a fair and equal game for all. Due to all this, he stats that they have "a lot of anti-cheating, anti-boosting stuff going on behind the scenes, so we are monitoring that". They're going to have a "very heavy hand in the online security" of their own game and that they're taking it "very seriously" which includes having an engineer dedicated to it. He also claims that cheaters won't be able to hack their hardware to get around this and that if people do hack the hardware then they have the ability to detect it and report the culprit to Sony or Microsoft.