As the Olympics approach and the best of the best in a wide array of sports gear up to penetrate global supremacy, the security experts are busy exercising their little grey cells over a very different creed of penetration: computer monitoring software. Computer systems for the London Olympic Games are unyieldingly under the scanner to ensure that the systems are not infected by cyber attacks.

Oh Bloody Hell

PC monitoring has become a well known phenomenon in recent times. Software like Mobistealth computer monitoring have become household names, as spying in the tech realm has gone up a few notches. However spying takes a whole new meaning when the event under the gun is the biggest sporting occasion in the world, and the systems being potentially targeted are the ones that would deliver updates and results to Olympic scoreboards, timetables to athletes and confidential information to border officials. Hence, with all due respect to Mobistealth computer monitoring, this tracking is a whole new ball game altogether.



Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Tech Company

Atos, the technology vanguard of both the Summer and Winter Games for the past decade, has been busy tracking malware. The company claims that it has consumed over 200,000 hours in testing for simulated attacks – all in the name of tech security.

Atos is in charge of 11,500 systesms and servers all over Britain, and is running the Olympic Technology Operations around the clock to ward off any potential cyber threats. These threats are monitored every second as Atos shores up the defense of the Olympics systems.

Ethics In Hacking

Who would know precisely how a hacker’s mind works? Why a hacker of course! This is precisely why Atos has engaged “ethical hackers” to attack the systems, and through these attacks they’d be able to earmark the soft spots in the security mechanism, so to speak. There is a wide array of potential breaches that can be conjured up by the hackers and aptly there is a wide gamut of ethical hackers that are vying to penetrate the systems using a multitude of techniques and applications that any potential ‘unethical’ hackers might have at their disposal.

Recalling the Chinese Flavour

In the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the security experts encountered around 12 million security issues every single day, and the forecast is that this number might increase by around 2 million this time around. Furthermore, Atos is also predicting that it would have to tackle around 2 million key data pieces during the Olympics, which would be 30 percent more than at Beijing.

Gold Medal For Hackers

With the top athletes eying gold in London, the hackers would have something similar in mind as well. Except that their gold medal would be to do something like lighting up the scoreboards with unwarranted messages – something that is being touted as ‘impossible’. But then again everyone thought that the same man winning eight gold medals in the same sport was rather impossible till Beijing 2008. So, is there going to be a Michael Phelps of the computer monitoring software world in London? Not if Atos can do anything about it…

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