Atos, the official IT services provider for the 2012 London Olympics has diligently prepared to deliver its “Personal Best” efforts to defend against the various cyber attacks that threaten all types of technology systems associated with the games that begin later this week. Atos is an international information technology services company with 74,000 employees in 48 countries.
Protecting the information and equipment at such an event is a massive effort; 3,500 IT professionals will be supporting 1,000 servers and 10,000 end user devices over 140 sites. Their base of operations is the Olympic Technology Operations Centre in east London’s Canary Wharf business district
Preparation for this monumental task began seven years ago and includes over 200,000 hours of testing and responding to simulated cyber attacks. The French IT services and consulting corporation enlisted various “ethical hackers” to try their best to get past the security measures in place for defensive practice. Other drills involved sending data collected from past Olympic games and other world championship events into the real-time data distribution system that will update the scoreboards at the events.
The scoring and timing systems at the Olympic stadium in east London is an ideal target for hackers with a need to express themselves. “Hacktivists” search for infiltration points that will allow them to replace athletes’ times and scores with the rhetoric they wish to display on this world stage.
At the 2008 Beijing Games, approximately 12 million potential cyber attacks were thwarted daily. Four years have provided hackers with time to hone their skills and cause epic chaos if they are successful. The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games'(LOCOG) invested $750 million in technology and defending it against threats.
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