Quotes by Patrick Adiba

“In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with malicious intent or not, can have disastrous consequences. For a highly visible event like the Olympic Games, the challenge of IT security is not only to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the systems, but to control the activity of authorized people inside the games network.”

“A lot of the security is related to processes. We try to design a system thats secure, to prevent people from processing, entering or modifying data.”

“Its very important when we measure an event to recognize its impact on time. For example, an event eight hours before a competition may not be major, but if it happens 10 minutes [before] or during a competition, its critical we do something.”

“All of the situations we encountered, wed anticipated because of all the testing and rehearsals we did. We were never taken by surprise.”

“Dont rely only on designing a system and hoping its going to work. Test it, and test it with real problems.”