THREAT STATUS REPORT 2024 – 2025
2024was a year of dangers for the Cyber France team, with the Olympic and Paralympic Games being held in France in a highly tense geopolitical context that is conducive to large- scale actions.
The threat risk could come from all sides: groups of state attackers in a context where Russian athletes were deprived of the Olympic Games, groups of private attackers looking for global stunts to attract new members or even groups of hacktivists wishing to defend a cause.
Thanks to the Cyber France collective, and despite numerous attempts before and during the Paris 2024 Games, defence held up and contributed to the success of this event, which amazed the whole world and made the vast majority of French people proud.
Under the leadership of ANSSI, aDvens contributed to this success by carrying out numerous Red Team exercises. These tested the feared attack scenarios, as well as deploying and managing the protection of 13 major Olympic sites, with a particular focus on industrial environments (OT).
The first threat lesson to be learnt is that with significant resources, it is possible to contain even the most extreme threats. The resources put in place were commensurate with the event: off the scale. We now need to adapt these best practices and make them sustainable in a context of tighter budgets and human resources, for both public and private companies. Absolute protection against all threats is impossible, given the limited resources of each organisation, so the challenge is to identify the major risks and take the most effective action to mitigate them.
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