http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2116018/london-olympics-team-prepares-cyber-physical-attacks By Rosalie Marshall V3.co.uk 10 Oct 2011 London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton on Monday officially launched the technology hub set to play a key role at the Olympics next year and revealed the exhaustive measures put in place to safeguard the infrastructure from attack or systems failure. The Technology Operations Centre (TOC) for the London Olympics contains 180 servers that will be maintained by 450 professionals over the 16 days of the Olympics games and the 12 days of the Paralympics. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said it had been working closely with IT integrator Atos to ensure results can be delivered in real-time to all devices connected to the internet during the Olympics. "We estimate there will be around nine million devices connected to the internet in 2012, and we need to ensure they can all access data in a reliable and secure way in an open environment," said Atos head of Olympics and major events, Patrick Adiba. [...] _____________________________________________________________ FINAL CALL to register #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Tue Oct 11 2011 - 01:58:08 PDT
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