The sensitive data host has been chosen
Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365: published on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 4:41 p.m.
After months of discussions, a decision was made for the choice of the host of sensitive data for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The news of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, whose four ceremonies will be led by Thomas Jolly, has been marked in recent hours by important news. It does not concern the sporting field directly but it is linked to it. The state and the organizers of the Olympics finally called on the French company Atos for the sensitive data of the 2024 Games which, at the base, were to be hosted by Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant and official sponsor of the IOC.
The outcome of a complex situation
This choice to take the French Atos would have been made to act as a “trusted third party” and ensure the management of sensitive data, in particular personal data, on behalf of Alibaba, which will also retain the direct management of all other data. This is the outcome of a complex situation when at the end of August, the director of the Olympic Games for the IOC, Christophe Dubi, had indicated: “We will arrive at a pragmatic and intelligent solution”.
A sensitive file at the heart of the game
The French state had been contrary almost a year ago following a disturbing discovery. Alibaba, one of the IOC’s top sponsors, was supposed to house the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games accreditation file in its “cloud”, but the French Interior Ministry discovered that this sensitive file was the company’s responsibility. Chinese. The famous file includes tens of thousands of coordinates of invitations, public authorities or media. The risks of exfiltration of databases from Olympic information systems for strategic purposes or economic espionage were feared. After months of discussions, a solution was finally found. For this role of “trusted third party” and the hosting of this sensitive data, which will also be physically hosted in France, Alibaba will pay Atos.