Paris Summer Olympics expect a flurry of cyberattacks, and with good reason. Russia is shut out of the Games; geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and the South China Sea are running high; cybercriminals continue to bombard computer networks with hacking attempts.
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A collection of government, private-sector and Olympic cybersecurity specialists have spent months preparing. The government’s agency, ANSSI, has identified 500 companies, organisations and facilities critical to the functioning of the Games, including local governments and operators in various sectors. They also have US allies alongside them.
But experts still worry that non-traditional targets — companies or organisations with less-scrutinised protections — will also be in hackers’ sights.
Jeremy Couture, who runs the cybersecurity operations centre, said, “It’s being able to react to the worst and still deliver, and to ensure that the competitions will still go on.”
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