Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Ping: Yan Noblot"
This article is part of the February 2006 issue of Best-of-breed: Security Products of the Year: 2006
Yan Noblot, IT security manager for this month's Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, hopes this is the only time you see his name in print. If his becomes a household name, a digital disaster has disrupted the 16-day event typically shrouded in security. Noblot, a France native who works for systems integrator Atos Origin, says lessons learned from previous Olympiads are essential to keeping threats to a minimum. What were the highest priorities identified by your risk assessments? There are two main risks. The first, like every corporation, is protection from viruses and intrusions. A virus could be catastrophic; if you have a virus at the wrong time or place, you might have to postpone a competition. The second type of risk is people with malicious intent trying to piggyback on the visibility of the games. The impact of someone breaking into a scoreboard, or hijacking a feed with their own messages, is bad for the Olympic movement. At the end of the day, the Olympics is about visibility. For two weeks, everybody will be looking at Torino. We are in a ... Access >>>
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