Paris. Organized crime, activists and states will be the main threats during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, and organizers expect enormous pressure to meet this unprecedented challenge.
The Games organization, which has been working hand in hand with the French National Information Security Agency (ANSSI, for its acronym in French), and the cybersecurity companies Cisco and Eviden, seeks to limit the impact of cyberattacks on the sporting event that will take place from July 26 to August 11.
“We cannot prevent all attacks, there will be no Games without attacks, but we have to limit their impact,” Vincent Strubel, director general of the ANSSI, told the press. “There are 500 sites, competition venues (…) and we have tried them all.”
Strubel is confident we are prepared. “The Games face an unprecedented level of threat, but we have also done unprecedented preparation work, so I think we are one step ahead of the attackers,” he said.
To ensure they are prepared, organizers have been paying “ethical hackers” to test their systems and have been using artificial intelligence to help them triage threats.
“Artificial intelligence helps us distinguish between an annoyance and a catastrophe,” explains Franz Regul, IT Director General of Paris 2024.
“We expect the number of cybersecurity events to increase 10-fold compared to Tokyo (in 2021).” “In terms of cybersecurity, four years equals a century,” explained Eric Greffier, CISCO’s head of partnerships.
In 2018, a computer virus dubbed “Olympic Destroyer” was used in an attack on the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
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– 2024-05-12 04:28:55
