With the 2024 Olympics’ Opening Ceremony only two weeks away now, there is one thing that’s an absolute guarantee of one thing happening during the traditionally unpredictable games: Cyber attacks.
Every time there is a new Olympic Games, there’s a renewed discussion about how threat actors, hacktivists and state-sponsored groups are all gearing up to try to disrupt the games in some way. The Opening Ceremony at the 2018 Olympic Games in South Korea was disrupted by a major cyber attack called Olympic Destroyer, briefly pausing ticket-taking operations and taking down several Olympics-related websites.
And for this year’s Summer Games, France faces an “unprecedented level of threat,” according to the head of the country’s cybersecurity agency.
That’s because, in our modern day, there is just simply so much to protect. Ninety-nine percent of modern communication occurs over a network at this point, especially when you’re talking about an international event. That means protecting individual inboxes, mail servers, third-party messaging apps, virtual meetings and more.
Each attendee of the games is going to bring in their own devices, too, and connect to whatever public network the Olympics stands up at the arenas or fields where competitions are taking place. That’s tens of thousands of new potential entry points for threat actors.
There are also domains, subdomains, hosts, web applications and third-party cloud resources that the Games rely on, all with their own attack surfaces.
A study from Outpost24 earlier this year found that the security for ..
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