The Olympic Committee said its cyber-security team handled the tech meltdown admirably and has ‘huge safeguards’ in place
Games have ‘huge safeguards in place,’ says spokesmanThe International Olympic Committee has said its IT systems are robust after going into meltdown on Friday as a result of, that affected 8.5m Windows devices. The IOC was able to secure a priority fix with the American company, which meant its systems were back online on Friday. Before then, security checks at the Games’ press centre were done manually using lists of names and the accreditation desk was closed.
Mark Adams, the IOC president’s spokesman, said: “There were some significant problems on Friday morning but it was dealt with. I’m not a technology expert but I would say it was quite a good rehearsal for the Games.is a huge target. Needless to say, we have a huge amount of safeguards in place. We have been assured by our people, and by partners and Paris 2024, that we are very, very prepared.”
Russia successfully hacked the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. “You can never be too prepared,” Adams said. “But we had a pretty close call in Pyeongchang, so we have experience, we know what we’re looking for. As far as we can, we have every confidence we know how to deal with it.” Adams confirmed no efforts had been made to contact the Russian authorities and ask them not to target the Games with cyber-attacks. “Clearly there is a campaign of some sort going on,” he said. “It’s not the first time or the last time that the IOC became the target of misinformation. You’ll see it very clearly, particularly with the Tom Cruise film, it is getting more and more sophisticated.”at the Paris Games as neutrals, as long as they had no connections with the military.
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