Debt-ridden French IT group Atos, the cybersecurity and data provider for the Paris Olympics, posted a huge annual loss Tuesday but vowed that its troubles would not disrupt the Games. Atos' cybersecurity arm, Eviden, will provide cybersecurity to the entire information system for the Games, the Olympic sites, personnel and volunteers.
Atos will transmit Olympic and Paralympic game results nearly instantaneously to broadcasters and media during the summer events. Photo: PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP/FileDebt-ridden French IT group Atos, the cybersecurity and data provider for the Paris Olympics, posted a huge annual loss Tuesday but vowed that its troubles would not disrupt the Games.
Atos, the International Olympic Committee's technology partner since the Salt Lake City winter games in 2002, is in charge of managing more than 300,000 accreditations. "We have just completed a test phase on the operational level which was extraordinarily well received by everyone," Saleh said.The Olympics organising committee said last week that it had"complete confidence in the Atos teams ... to honour the contract which binds them" to the IOC and the Paris Games.
Organisers expect the Olympics, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, to be the target of cyberattacks.To ease concerns, Atos has organised a media visit to its Technology Operations Centre, which the company describes as"the control and command centre for technology that supervises all 63 Olympic and Paralympic competition and non-competition venues.
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