Securing the Olympics: The Cybersecurity Architecture for Paris 2024 - BRKSEC-2019#

Speakers: Piotr Jarzynka (Cisco)

• Why: A one-of-a-kind adversarial environment — a globally targeted, time-boxed, sprawling venue network — with real lessons on architecture for ephemeral, high-threat deployments that no vendor lab can simulate.
• What: The cybersecurity architecture actually implemented for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics: the governance, prevention, detection, and response design, lessons learned, and best practices extracted. (from abstract only)
• How: A holistic architecture spanning governance to response, built to protect competitions against a wide range of threat actors for the duration of the event; the value is in the incident-informed design decisions rather than any single product.
• Where applicable: Large temporary events and any environment requiring a complete, from-scratch security posture on a hard deadline; generalized best practices rather than a repeatable blueprint. Worth a skim for the operational design constraints alone.