Damien Rajot, the director of the commercial operations for Paris 2024, claimed that the organizing committee has a "very strong team" to combat cyber attacks during the Olympics and Paralympics.
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Damien Rajot, the director of the commercial operations for Paris 2024, claimed that the organizing committee has a “very strong team” in place to combat cyber attacks in the run-up to and during the Olympics and Paralympics. With its financial allocation increasing by €10 million (£8.8 million/$10.7 million) earlier this month, cybersecurity has emerged as a key concern in the French capital’s Games preparations. Rajot asserts that there is enough backing in place to deal with any threats. The French National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI) is in charge of directing the strategy in this sector.
With 13.4 million tickets available for the Games and a projected income of €1.42 billion (£1.26 billion/$1.51 billion), attacks on the ticketing platform are among the known concerns. The possible threats also include the emergence of fake websites, counterfeit products, and lost online tickets. Successful applicants in the ticket lottery will be given a 48-hour window between February 13 and March 15, 2023, to secure their purchases, with the goal of lowering pressure on the online system.
Rajot stated, “We have a very strong team, from marketing to IT, and a group of experts made up of the companies CTS Eventim, already in charge of ticketing at the Rio Games, Francebillet and Orange Business Services,” Rajot said, as reported by Le Monde. “We know that, at all international events, the systems fail when we give people a single date to register,” as per Le Monde, a French publication.
“Managing the opening flows, via purchase airlocks, is a first security. The use of online tickets is another method aimed at reducing security threats to Paris 2024. The paper ticket can be photocopied and falsified, as we saw at the Stade de France,” he said, according to Le Monde. For the Games, tickets will be sent to spectators’ cell phones, a few days before the events, with a QR code that will be renewed. There are still things to adjust, but the launch phase is off to a good start” from a cybersecurity perspective,” he added.
