As the Olympic Games’ IT integrator Atos Origin is responsible for the Design, Build and Operation of the IT infrastructure.

• Design - Atos Origin is responsible for designing a complex and secure high quality IT infrastructure on time to specification and within budget. While designing architecture for current Games, Atos Origin considers the next Games and how to transfer the knowledge gained.
• Build - Atos Origin implements IT security preventative measures to protect against physical and digital attacks on the IT network architecture. The company is also responsible for building and refining a customized suite of software applications that power the Olympic Games.
• Operate - Atos Origin applies its ‘one team’ approach to ensure that a complex network of IT partners and suppliers, employees and volunteers work together to deliver the best possible service and support to each Olympic Games.

For the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we collected and filtered more than 12 million IT security events each day to detect any potential security risk for the Olympic Games IT systems. From these, less than 100 were identified as real issues. All were resolved, with no impact at all on the Olympic Games.

Atos Origin focuses on three key IT areas: security architecture, risk management and security operations.

• IT Security Architecture - Security is built into the infrastructure from the outset. Security measures include:
• Separation between the Games network and the Intranet
• Olympic network segmented into security domains
• Strict configuration management processes (security mechanisms such as anti-virus software and port security)
• Strategic placement of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
• IT Risk Management - Through extensive testing before the Games the IT security team is able to understand what is normal activity on applications, servers, PCs and the network, so that an incident can be logged when the traffic becomes abnormal. This strategy enables the IT security team to effectively respond to incidents on a prioritized basis and keep the Games IT infrastructure protected from a wide range of threats that may otherwise compromise critical IT services – including the recording and distribution of competition results.
• IT Security Operations - Atos Origin trains the entire IT team in security policies and procedures. At Games time, the IT security team is operational 24x7 in order to respond to any incidents that occur, day or night.